Article 3WT5A Leaked FBI memo warns banks of looming "unlimited ATM cashout"

Leaked FBI memo warns banks of looming "unlimited ATM cashout"

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Cory Doctorow
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When scammers get inside of the networks of financial institutions, they sometimes stage "cashouts" where they recruit confederates around the world to all hit ATMs at the same time with cards tied to hacked accounts and withdraw the maximum the ATMs will allow; but the wilier criminals first disable the anti-fraud and withdrawal maximum features in the banks' systems, enabling confederates to drain ATMs of all the cash they contain. This is called an "unlimited cashout." (more")

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