its possible however to fool , not malicious people  by creating a fake website ..that ask you to enter your credit card numbers.. Good thing about VIsa and MAstercard is that they do not aprove questionable transactions and in case happens they can refund you your money in case of fraud. Money is always safe. privacy however is not.  What i think this news was really about.. was about Security experts making a lot of millions .. selling security vulnerabilities to anti virus companies .. to help make them safer.. thats what most likely this news was about. All said.. never have any information or photos of value on your computer because the internet is not 100% safe.

THis news is so wrong.. you cannot "steal" anyone else money using internet. Unless of course you get their bank account numbers and physically remove money.  All financial institution operate outside of the Internet.. People forget Banks were doing business as usual without the invention of internet. Privatte institution use private comunication lines and only way to enter in any of them is that you are a bank from their institution. all said is laughlable that "hackers" can do any harm to any financial instutution. ,they cant. best hackers can do is shot down PUBLIC services that business now offer.. like their Website. thats it. but their money transaction are all private. that said..  I never knew of any hacker that turned into millinaire overnight with the internet thats not possible. neither is possible to do any harm to any government communications with the internet.. Internet is nothing more that a public service.. private communication are 100% safe.

Russians at their best!