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Crooks Nab Citibank ATM Codes, Steal Millions
An anonymous reader writes "Citibank is reissuing ATM cards following a December server breach in which hackers stole customer PIN codes, Wired reports. In recent months the FBI has arrested 10 people in the New York area who were allegedly involved in using the codes to steal over $2 million from Citibank checking and savings accounts, including two Ukrainian immigrants who were each caught with $800,000 in cash stashed in boxes and shopping bags in their homes. Some of the suspects are cooperating, telling the feds that they've been working for a Russian hacker. They use magstripe writers to encode the stolen account numbers onto blank cards, then hit ATMs in New York, and transfer 70% of the loot back to Russia."
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Amazing that anyone smart enough to steal that much money could be dumb enough to get caught. My guess is they were just bagmen. Literally, in this case...
A-Bomb
>Fingerprints would be useless for an amputee.
Well, we *were* on our way to minimizing the number of double-arm-amputees, until somebody gave George Bush the authority to start a war. Now it's hard to get numbers, but I think we have more than at any point since the civil war.