Cyber crooks now have more bank account login credentials than they know what to do with.

That is a frightening bottom-line conclusion of new findings released by Dell SecureWorks, which pegs the cost to buy a username/password log in to a bank account with at least $70,000 in it at $300 or less.

The question credit union executives need to ask themselves is: what can be done to secure accounts in an era where criminals seemingly have as many valid login credentials as they want?

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