This content was created by Robert Siciliano. This content was uploaded by Robert Siciliano. This is a YouTube local news report titled "Municipality business banking account gets hacked" (published Nov 4, 2015). The excerpt is a Fox 25 report with reporter Crystal Haynes live in Marshfield, Marshfield Police Chief Philip Taveras, brief anchor prompts (Mark and Elizabeth), and cybersecurity expert Robert Siciliano. It describes a late-July incident in which cyber thieves stole about $30,000 from the town's municipal account (Rockland Trust later recovered the funds), the ongoing investigation with no signs of an inside job, and Siciliano's advice that the theft likely involved malware or phishing and that small towns should train employees on cybersecurity.
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Tens of thousands of dollars goes missing from the town of Marshfield's bank account.
And tonight, police say cyber thieves are to blame. Fox 25's Crystal Haynes is live in Marshfield. Crystal?
Mark and Elizabeth, I can tell you that all Rockland Trust that holds the municipal account for Marshfield would tell me is that they recovered the $30,000 from the account and returned it back to the town. But the police chief says they still don't know what happened here. It's a first for Marshfield.
There's lots of people that are able to hack into systems and electronically steal money, and it happened to the town of Marshfield.
Marshfield Police Chief Philip Taveras tells me cyber thieves stole $30,000 from the town's municipal account with Rockland Trust.
We're not exactly sure how it happened. We're led to believe through the limited information that we have that it was an outside source unrelated to the town.
The account is believed to have been hacked back in late July, and Chief Taveras says they have no evidence evidence to suggest it was an inside job. Rockland Trust would not answer questions about the details of this incident but did tell me in a statement, quote, Rockland Trust brought this matter to the town's attention and we have recovered all of the funds on behalf of the town.
It was taken out, um, different amounts over a period of time. We're going to find out how, uh, that happened.
Chances are they probably will not catch who's responsible. The majority of these crimes happen, uh, cross-borders and Overseas.
Cybersecurity expert Robert Siciliano tells me via FaceTime today hacks like these can likely be traced back to a computer linked to the bank account. A reminder for all of us to check our own cybersecurity.
Some way, somehow, they have malware on their machine and/or, uh, they responded to a phishing email and provided their credentials to a criminal.
Now, Siciliano also tells me that small towns need to start thinking like small businesses and train their employees to watch out for dangerous situations like these. Now, speaking of personal records, I can tell you that the chief says that all of the accounts were checked, other accounts, uh, other than this bank account here that was hacked, and no personal information has been jeopardized. We're going to stay on top of this one. For now, reporting live in Marshfield, I'm Crystal Haynes, Fox 25 News.
