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Paul K 17-03-2005 08:54
£220M robbery attempt
 
BBC News
Quote:
London police foil huge bank raid
Police in London have foiled one of the biggest ever robbery attempts in Britain.
The plan was to steal £220 million from the London offices of the Japanese bank Sumitomo Mitsui.
Computer experts are believed to have tried to transfer the money electronically after hacking into the bank's systems.
A man has been arrested by police in Israel after the plot was uncovered by the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit.

Unit members worked closely with Israeli police.
The investigation was started last October after it was discovered that computer hackers had gained access to Sumitomo Mitsui bank's computer system in London.
They managed to infiltrate the system with keylogging software that would have enabled them to track every button pressed on computer keyboards.
Now that would have been a costly breach of security :erm:

Tuftus 17-03-2005 09:50
Re: £220M robbery attempt
 
You would have thought that banks with this kind of money would be firewalled up to the hilt...

Guess not... :eek:

STONEISLAND 17-03-2005 09:55
Re: £220M robbery attempt
 
They where to greedy IMO if they tryed a lesser amount they might of got away with it.

Russ 17-03-2005 09:58
Re: £220M robbery attempt
 
Wow I used to work for Sumitomo, it's where I was alongside Mike Locke (Pancho from Dirty Sanchez).


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