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The Federal Police arrested in the act on Friday (12), eight people suspected of joining a criminal organization responsible for hacker attacks against the national financial system.The arrests took place in São Paulo and were converted into preventive. According to the PF, the group is suspected of diverting pix resources, illegally accessing the so -called interbank settlement accounts used by banks to the Central Bank.Investigated people may be responsible for criminal organization crimes and attempted qualified theft by electronic means. Billionaire fraud Between late June and early July, a hacker attack broke into the C&M Software system, linked to the Brazilian Payment System (SPB), generating deviations that can reach close to $ 1 billion.Only BMP bank would have suffered losses of R $ 479 million. At the end of August, another attack, against the company Sinqia - which connects several banking institutions to Pix - suspicious activities were identified and the deviation may have reached R $ 710 million.Of these, R $ 400 million would have been diverted from HSBC to oranges accounts. Earlier this month of September, financial market interlocutors communicated a new attempted hacker attack on the Pix system.This time, the target company was Fintech Monnetarie, a securitizer that anticipates credit values.So far, the deviations would add “only” $ 5 million. In addition, serial attacks may have caused a loss of close to $ 2 billion and involvement of criminal factions.The Central Bank has announced measures to strengthen the security of transactions of the National Financial System (SFN). Pix attack suspicious group The new prison would be against the same criminal organization had already performed the invasions prior to the banking system.According to Estadão, this Friday's action prevented an action aimed at Caixa Econômica Federal and could reach funds from federal government programs. The plan would have been frustrated after a Caixa manager warns PF about suspicious movement at an agency in Brás, central São Paulo.According to the investigation, the suspects tried to obtain credentials for access to the bank's system.In the same operation, the PF seized cell phones and computers.