London police made three arrests last week in connection with the theft of up to £1.6 million ($2.58 million) from over 50 ATMs in cities across the UK.
The crimes took place over this year's May Day holiday weekend (3 - 5
May) and hit 51 cash machines in multiple areas, including Brighton,
Portsmouth and London in the south and Blackpool, Doncaster, Liverpool
and Sheffield in the north of England.
The machines affected are described by police
as being in "standalone public places", rather than attached to banks
or other secure areas, and were apparently physically broken into by
criminals who planted malicious code onto their systems.
This "specialist malware" allowed the crooks to empty the machines of
large amounts of cash, averaging over £30,000 per machine, although
police reports suggest the malware later removed itself before it could
be inspected by investigators, leaving its exact nature something of a
mystery. read more>>
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