![]() ![]() ![]() But with vigilance, they can help bring criminals to justice. Normal ATM users cannot fight against such an attack on their banks. Within 15 hours, 41 more ATM machines in other branches in Taichung and Taipei cities doled out an accumulated 83.27 million TWD, which is worth US$2.7 million today.Īnd while the Taiwan police were able to successfully nab the suspects of this million-dollar heist-most of whom hailed from European countries-many unnamed criminals taking advantage of flaws and weaknesses in ATM machines (even financial systems as a whole) are still at large. In fact, this seemingly odd system glitch was actually a test: The culprit who successfully infiltrated one of First Commercial Bank’s London branch servers issued an instruction to a cashpoint 7,000 miles away to check if a remote-controlled heist was possible. No one was cashing out money from the ATM at the time. At exactly 12:33 a.m., a solitary ATM somewhere in Taichung City, Taiwan, spewed out 90,000 TWD (New Taiwan Dollar)-about US$2,900 today-in bank notes. ![]()
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