$45mn got stolen in global cyber bank heist | China National News
7:34 AM Saturday 11 May 2013
$45mn got stolen in global cyber bank heist
China National News Friday 10th May, 2013
• The accused ringleader in the US cell, Alberto Yusi Lajud-Pena, was reportedly murdered
• More investigations are ongoing and more arrests have been made in other countries
• The criminal gang had stolen a total of $45 million from two Middle Eastern banks in two operations
NEW YORK - The criminals didn't come with guns, ski masks or screeching getaway cars. They were a sophisticated bunch of men who walked into ATMs around the world and left with backpacks full of cash.
In two precision operations involving people in more than two dozen countries, $45 million got stolen in a matter of hours.
Eight people are under arrest in the US in connection with the case, which prosecutors said involved thousands of thefts from ATMs using bogus magnetic swipe cards. The accused ringleader in the US cell, Alberto Yusi Lajud-Pena, was reportedly murdered in the Dominican Republic late last month, prosecutors said
"As charged in the indictment, the defendants and their co-conspirators participated in a massive 21st century bank heist that reached across the Internet and stretched around the globe. In the place of guns and masks, this cybercrime organization used laptops and the Internet," said US attorney Loretta Lynch.
Lynch called it "a massive 21st-century bank heist" and comparable in size to the Lufthansa heist in the late 1970s immortalised in the film Goodfellas. Lynch said the fraudsters had moved with astounding speed to loot financial institutions around the world.
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7:34 AM Saturday 11 May 2013 $45mn got stolen in global cyber bank heist
China National News Friday 10th May, 2013
• More investigations are ongoing and more arrests have been made in other countries
• The criminal gang had stolen a total of $45 million from two Middle Eastern banks in two operations
NEW YORK - The criminals didn't come with guns, ski masks or screeching getaway cars. They were a sophisticated bunch of men who walked into ATMs around the world and left with backpacks full of cash.
In two precision operations involving people in more than two dozen countries, $45 million got stolen in a matter of hours.
Eight people are under arrest in the US in connection with the case, which prosecutors said involved thousands of thefts from ATMs using bogus magnetic swipe cards. The accused ringleader in the US cell, Alberto Yusi Lajud-Pena, was reportedly murdered in the Dominican Republic late last month, prosecutors said
"As charged in the indictment, the defendants and their co-conspirators participated in a massive 21st century bank heist that reached across the Internet and stretched around the globe. In the place of guns and masks, this cybercrime organization used laptops and the Internet," said US attorney Loretta Lynch.
Lynch called it "a massive 21st-century bank heist" and comparable in size to the Lufthansa heist in the late 1970s immortalised in the film Goodfellas. Lynch said the fraudsters had moved with astounding speed to loot financial institutions around the world.
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