Attackers Steal $12.7M In Massive ATM Heist (mainichi.jp)

Within two hours $12.7 million in cash was stolen from 1,400 ATMs located at convenience stores all across Japan, investigators announced Sunday. An anonymous reader quotes a Japanese newspaper: Police suspect that the cash was withdrawn at ATMs using counterfeit credit cards containing account information leaked from a South African bank. Japanese police will work with South African authorities through the International Criminal Police Organization to look into the major theft, including how credit card information was leaked, the sources said.
Over the two hours attackers withdrew the equivalent of $907 in 14,000 different transactions.

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Re:Bullcrap. 14000 transactions in two hours...

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I'm thinking that it's all done via mule teams
so 1400 machines and 14000 transactions = 10 transactions per machine
each transaction should take start to finish 2.5 minutes so we are looking
about 30 minutes for 10 transactions giving time for who knows what.

From this point, I am guessing 3 machines per person ( 30 min to take and 10 min to next machine )
so... 1400 / 3 = 467 members ( round up slightly for time losses so jump to 500 mules )

I am going to state that in Japan, it's doable, they got the team work.

How to discover the team, reverse engineer all bank searches for atm
machines, bet certain group patterns show up.