'Home banking hacker' arrested

Self-confessed home banking hacker Pieter Miclotte has been arrested on charges of fraud. Miclotte reported to Ghent police on Friday 8/12, just hours after Belgian media quoted him saying that thieving via home banking is as easy as plundering a shop with its doors open. He told newspaper 'Het Laatste Nieuws' that he'd robbed customers of two banks, namely ING and Keytrade, via online banking. He claimed to have stolen thousands of euros in recent weeks. Miclotte said he gained access during chat sessions to the computers of other online chatters and went looking for information about their banking and bank access codes. He allegedly used those codes to transfer large sums of money to his own accounts.