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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Police suspect that the cash was withdrawn at ATMs using counterfeit credit cards containing account information leaked from a South African bank.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.
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.
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14,000 x $907 = $12.7m So where do you join this gang of 1400 fantastically well coordinated thieves?
$907 is exactly 100,000 Yen, which is the transaction limit.
What the hell does that even mean?
It means he is unable to comprehend simple sentences or basic mathematics.
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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.
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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.
To be fair, the sentence probably should have contained the word "each".
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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.
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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.
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To be fair, the sentence probably should have contained the word "each".
Perhaps, but I think it would be pretty obvious to anyone who thought about it for a moment.
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I suspect that each thief used multiple accounts until each of the ATMs was out of money, then moved to the next one. Perhaps 10 or twenty large withdraws each one might take 10 to 20 minutes. Five to ten minutes to get to the next ATM would give four to eight 'sessions' over two hours, so I'd guess that each one worked 40 to 160 transactions, lets say 100 each for lack of better data. Meaning about 140 crooks for the 'back of napkin estimate', I'm no expert on the Yakuza, but that number seems really 'doable'.
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Wow, Slashdot. So my comment gets downvoted *twice* to "flamebate" and then a comment "To be fair, the sentence probably should have contained the word "each"." from a different user gets upvoted to +5 (Informative). What am I missing?
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Only if you've read the previous summary "Over the two hours attackers withdrew the equivalent of $907 in 14,000 different transactions."
It was a 5-sentence summary. Who reads the last line without reading the first few sentences?
The last line may have been a little clumsy on its own but if that's all a person can be bothered to read then they deserve to be confused.
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