FBI uncovers nine million dollar ATM scam.Washington, Feb 4 (ANI): Hackers orchestrated or·ches·trate tr.v. or·ches·trat·ed, or·ches·trat·ing, or·ches·trates 1. To compose or arrange (music) for performance by an orchestra. 2. a highly coordinated, global attack on ATM cards involving the theft of a staggering nine million dollar from bank customers, and they could strike again. Customers' personal information might also have been compromised in what federal agents are calling one of the most well-coordinated such schemes they've seen, MyFOXNY.com reported. The FBI said it uncovered the plot and is investigating. The alleged hackers are still at large and could orchestrate or·ches·trate tr.v. or·ches·trat·ed, or·ches·trat·ing, or·ches·trates 1. To compose or arrange (music) for performance by an orchestra. 2. another attack. In a matter of hours, thieves struck ATMs from 49 different cities including New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Atlanta, Chicago, Moscow and Montreal on November 8, the FBI said. Part of the heist was caught on security camera images obtained by the TV station. The photos show people the FBI calls "cashers" - low-level participants in the plot who allegedly used bogus ATM cards with stolen information - at the machines. The scheme worked as follows: Plotters hacked into a computer system for a company called RBS RBS Royal Bank of Scotland RBS Role Based Security RBS Rollback Segment RBS Rare Book School (University of Virginia) RBS Rural Business Cooperative Service RBS Ribosome Binding Site (genetics) WorldPay, which allows employers to transfer workers' pay directly to a payroll card. The scam artists were then able to infiltrate the system and steal personal data needed to make duplicate ATM cards. "We've seen similar attempts to defraud To make a Misrepresentation of an existing material fact, knowing it to be false or making it recklessly without regard to whether it is true or false, intending for someone to rely on the misrepresentation and under circumstances in which such person does rely on it to his or a bank through ATM machines but not anywhere near the scale we have here," FBI Agent Ross Rice said. "We've never seen one this well coordinated," he added. The FBI has no suspects and has made no arrests so far. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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