Waving a gun around at a camber is so 10 class ago . With a footling technical school on their side , a squad of bank building robber were able to snag a cool $ 45 million in cash withnothing but some hacks and few old key cardsthat had ATMs across the orb nearly print money .
An bill of indictment unseal today accuses eight citizenry of being members of the NYC arm of the globose crew that specialized in using fake ATM calling card to withdraw scads of cash from machines all over the world . The squad hacked its mode into a prepaid debit lineup data base , used the numbers to program a bunch of onetime card — from blanks to hotel keys — and withdraw sweet , illicit hard currency through a series of thousands of transactions . The whole labor netted them $ 45 million , with a whopping $ 2.8 million snag in a single day .
Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch called it “ a massive 21st - century bank heist , ” but it still had the caparison of an older - schoolhouse shakedown ; several of the human race involved were caught on security system cameras going from ATM to ATM sum cup of tea increasingly bloated with cash money .
The playfulness did n’t last long though , and starting in March , say members of the New York cell were pick up one by one , often in possession of thousands of dollars in pilfered Johnny Cash . The men are strike to be part of a larger hacker electronic connection with its roots outside the U.S. where this variety of pseudo is more coarse . They ’ll be intemperately - pressed to hack on their elbow room out of prison house . [ Seattle Times ]
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