Cyberthieves Steal $217,000 from Nebraska's Qwest Center

Post by **Brad** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 3:05 pm

Cyberthieves Steal $217,000 from Nebraska's Qwest Center

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44163617

www.msnbc.com wrote:Online crooks made off with $217,000 last month from the Metropolitan Entertainment & Convention Authority (MECA), a nonprofit organization that manages the Qwest Center and other public venues in Omaha, Nebraska.

iamjacobm · Post by **iamjacobm** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 6:25 pm

Are you sure they just didn't look at their bank account after Red Sky and realized they were 200K in the hole? Â

Seriously though it sounds like they were just too cheep to spring for the security upgrade and it ended up screwing them.

S33 · Post by **S33** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 1:28 pm

Don't worry, some insurance company will make it all better.

Post by **Brad** » Fri Aug 19, 2011 12:58 pm

Funny, 4 days after this was posted on eomahaforums, it is now "premium content" on omaha.com. Â good thing people are paying for a story that MSNBC had a almost a week ago for free.

Post by **Coyote** » Fri Aug 19, 2011 1:04 pm

Same thing with the Mega Bus...

NovakOmaha · Post by **NovakOmaha** » Fri Aug 19, 2011 3:26 pm

Brad wrote:Funny, 4 days after this was posted on eomahaforums, it is now "premium content" on omaha.com. good thing people are paying for a story that MSNBC had a almost a week ago for free.

Sounds like a carefully crafted hoax to me....

almighty_tuna · Post by **almighty_tuna** » Fri Aug 19, 2011 3:29 pm

NovakOmaha wrote:
Brad wrote:Funny, 4 days after this was posted on eomahaforums, it is now "premium content" on omaha.com. good thing people are paying for a story that MSNBC had a almost a week ago for free.
Sounds like a carefully crafted hoax to me....

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