Hackers have stolen the login credentials for 8,378 online customers of New York's Suffolk County National Bank.

"The breach represents a variation on more traditional types of attacks on online banking," writes The Register's Dan Goodin. "Cyber crooks typically target customers by surreptitiously planting malware on their computers that log their user name and password."

"By contrast, accessing a server that storing online credentials for tens of thousands of customers isn't the kind of intrusion one hears about every day," Goodin writes. "Best security practices are clear that passwords should never be stored on servers unless they are encrypted."

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