{"id":287900,"date":"2017-01-25T07:23:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T07:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=287900"},"modified":"2017-01-25T07:23:49","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T07:23:49","slug":"three-jailed-over-taiwan-atm-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/01\/three-jailed-over-taiwan-atm-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"Three jailed over Taiwan ATM hack"},"content":{"rendered":"
Three Eastern European men have been jailed in Taiwan over the theft of $2.6m (\u00a32.1m) from cash machines around the country.<\/p>\n
They are part of a network of criminals who used malware to hack into 41 First Commercial Bank machines in three different cities in July last year.<\/p>\n
CCTV showed offenders walking away with bags of cash, though most of the money was recovered shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n
Police in Thailand believe the case is linked to a similar theft there.<\/p>\n
Latvian Andrejs Peregudovs, Mihail Colibaba from Romania and Niklae Penkov from Moldova were all convicted by a Taipei court of causing damage to the public by breaching computer security.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors had sought 12-year jail terms, saying the actions “seriously disrupted financial order and caused public panic”.<\/p>\n
In response to the heist, banks temporarily froze withdrawals from more than 1,000 cash machines.<\/p>\n
Another 19 suspects, including one French national and one Australian, are believed to have fled the country.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Three Eastern European men have been jailed in Taiwan over the theft of $2.6m (\u00a32.1m) from cash machines around the country. They are part of a network of criminals who used malware to hack into 41 First Commercial Bank machines in three different cities in July last year. CCTV showed offenders walking away with bags […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[106],"tags":[3407,381,3408],"yoast_head":"\n