
Did Standard Bank lie and cheat to steal an idea worth billions?
When atm and internet fraud started seeping into public consciousness in the 1990s, Joburg-based software development company Advertising Digital Services (ADS) came up with a novel solution to a growing problem: hackers had found a way to secretly install a program on computers that would record keystrokes and mouse-clicks when users were logging on to sensitive websites.
With this information, they could empty a bank account from anywhere in the world.
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