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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Police suspect that the cash was withdrawn at ATMs using counterfeit credit cards containing account information leaked from a South African bank.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.
Over the two hours attackers withdrew the equivalent of $907 in 14,000 different transactions.
Clarify your terrible editing
Over the two hours attackers withdrew the equivalent of $907 in 14,000 different transactions.
Either these were the dumbest criminals out there to steal only $907 a few cents at a time, or at least a word or two are missing from the sentence above.
There is simply know way this happened in this scale over two hours. 14000 transactions across 1400 machines in 2 hours. HOW MANY people required to pull this off, trained, readied and not caught in advance?
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.
if you see me, smile and say hello.
Too many people involved for them to get away clean. And I bet they cased out the atms that had no people around first, so they could wear a mask. I give them 2 weeks to enjoy their heist.
$12.7m * 110 JPY/USD / 100000= 139.7
Someone writing the script for Ocean's One Hundred Forty Tokyo Drift
And they say crime doesn't pay.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Tô cagando e andando pra ladrão. Isso é problema de dono de banco. Pior é essa mangolona que infecta co noteook da minha mãe e quer atenção querendo que Eu bata a cabeça querendo arrumar, enquanto essa putinha da filha de um retardado corrupto da policia feral fica batendo siririca e olhando filmezinho com o comedor dela. Mas vai tomar no teu cu, sua merdinha. VAI PROCURAR TUA TURMA.
A team that big wouldn't work.
Just offer anonymity, immunity and a reward > $12,000,000/467.
Only the first to squeal gets the offer.
I should use this sig to advertise my book ISBN-13 : 978-1501515132.
Googloo has nothing!
Why did they put $12.7M in one massive ATM? come on, that's just stupid! #OnlyReadTheHeadline
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
When are these fools going to learn to only deploy massless ATMs? #OnlyReadTheHeadline
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
And all he knows is a few vague details of his contact and that he will die shortly for squeeling.
Crowd sourcing white collar crime.
I always root for the guys who rob banks and ATMs.
It was in fact a team of "over 100". Japan is Japan.
Interesting juxtaposition of stories on the Slashdot front page today. Guy discovers a vulnerability, tells the police, gets busted, his computers taken, and a 15 month suspended sentence. Guy discovers a vulnerability, goes black hat, steals $12 M in one day.
Kinda hard to miss the incentive system currently in place.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
Even easier with Bitcon.
You could have 3-4 people use 100 cards in a cycle at rural 7-11 (these are at 7-11 stores) ATM's, then go down the street 1 km to another store and do it again.
The amazing thing is there was no algorithm trigger to catch this type of event. Well, after living in Japan for 25 years, it's not so amazing.
20 years ago, I walked through a large HQ/manufacturing facility of a major global company with the president, and when we were in the engineering section, I casually asked an engineer about how they backed up all of their design & production data. He smiled as he showed me the CDR in his desk drawer, thinking I'd be impressed.
I took the cigarette lighter off his desk and lit it under the CDR.
And such was the depth of thought about data security...
Dude, it's the Japanese Mafia, they don't have rat's, they got it down pat to have no issues from everything I've ever read.
if you see me, smile and say hello.
And now i cant eat my lunch you suck
Surely this would not have happened with Bitcoins.
Oh wait.
ATM heist level asian!
I bet it was done by half that number of people and they did it while playing some dance game.
I wonder why it did not hit any overdraft limit at the stolen account.
Dude, it's the Japanese Mafia, they don't have rat's, they got it down pat to have no issues from everything I've ever read.
Fair enough. Maybe it will encourage the Japanese banks to switch from plaintext card credentials to a secure system of payment.
BOJ are all fraud
heist not a feature, but bug
more money, hit print
BONUS: the NSA haiku
with privacy dead
and treason instead
exploit the database
It's been brought to my attention .
aren't these haiku's or does Niel Young's rust finally sleep?
Fuck me I share anyway...
They have banks in South Africa? Who knew?
How is it possible to withdraw $907 from an ATM every 1.9 seconds?! How is it possible to withdraw anything from an ATM every 1.9 seconds unless there are thousands working together?! Or, was it all done as e-transfers to another account? Something is amiss: facts are missing, or this is another hoax.
Self-importance and self-indulgence is the root of ALL evil.
Japan's law system does not have the concept of plea-bargains so there really is no incentive to squeal.