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Stakeouts, Lucky Breaks Snare Six More in Citibank ATM Heist
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:34:37 -0500 (CDT)
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/06/fbi-arrests-six.html By Kevin Poulsen Threat Level Wired.com June 24, 2008 Citibank officials monitoring their network for fraud on Thursday, May 8, noticed suspicious ATM transactions at 8:30 p.m., coming through the five cash machines in the vestibule of a Citibank branch at 65th Street and Madison Avenue in New York City's Upper East Side. As luck would have it, a bank employee -- probably a corporate security official -- was already staking out the branch from across the street. Three months had passed since Citibank notified the FBI that a hacker managed to steal customer-account numbers and PIN codes, in an attack on a server that processes transactions from Citi-branded ATMs at 7-Eleven convenience stores. In late February and early March, the FBI and the U.S. Secret Service arrested two Ukrainian immigrants and two alleged co-conspirators for allegedly using the stolen PINs to steal $2 million in cash from unsuspecting Citibank customers. But the arrests didn't stop the fraud, which sprang from perhaps the most serious computer intrusion into a bank system to date. The FBI has recently made at least six more arrests in New York -- bringing the total to 10 -- thanks to information from arrested scam suspects, a lucky traffic stop, and an undercover operation that at one point had Eastern European hackers chasing a female FBI agent through the streets of New York, trying to mug her for ATM-card-programming gear. Six months after the 2007 breach, Wired.com is receiving scattered reports of Citibank customers still suffering mysterious withdrawals from their bank accounts. [...] _______________________________________________ Attend Black Hat USA, August 2-7 in Las Vegas, the world's premier technical event for ICT security experts. Featuring 40 hands-on training courses and 80 Briefings presentations with lots of new content and new tools. Network with 4,000 delegates from 50 nations. Visit product displays by 30 top sponsors in a relaxed setting. http://www.blackhat.com
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