In early 2010, Nish Bhalla sat down at his computer with one objective: steal a huge amount of money from a bank.
It wasn’t a typical heist. Bhalla is the chief executive of Security Compass, a company that tests security systems at banks, retailers, energy companies and other organizations with sensitive data. His clients — including the bank branch in the United States that he targeted in his 2010 attack — pay him to break into their systems.
It can be easier than most people think. The alleged thieves who made headlines last week for their $45 million bank heist used a similar type of attack that “created” money out of nowhere.
Bhalla talked CNN Money through his caper. Here, in four easy steps, is how he made himself into a millionaire.
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