A New Zealand man watched powerlessly as a computer hacker remotely accessed his PC and started draining his PayPal account with online purchases. Hamilton man Girish Kuruvilla woke at 3am to the sound of his mobile phone vibrating incessantly, and thinking it might be a family emergency from his native India he went to take the phone call.
Instead, the screen of his smartphone was flooded with emails confirming purchases made from his PayPal account that was linked to his ANZ credit card.
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