Crackers RBS World Pay arrested.
The St. Petersburg FSB conducted an operation to arrest the attacker Victor Pleschuka, which is considered the organizer of one of the most daring burglaries in the history of the banking business. In 2008, he and accomplices broke into the billing system RBS World Pay (a processing unit of Royal Bank of Scotland), stole information about debit cards and have access to personal data of clients and banking systems, including ATM-processing and payroll card. Somehow they were able to implement even reverse engineering PIN-codes, reports Wired. November 8, 2008 almost simultaneously with 44 cloned salary cards were withdrawn about $9.5 million within 12 hours of action were involved in about 2100 ATMs in 280 cities, including Atlanta, Chicago, New York, Montreal, Moscow and Hong Kong. The operation of cashing involved hundreds of ordinary "cashier" (mules). The large amount of damage due to the fact that the hackers managed to advance to raise the limits on withdrawals on each c...