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The Register Biting the hand that feeds IT The Register » Security » Network Security » Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/17/sumitomo_cyber-heist_foiled/ Cyber cops foil £220m Sumitomo bank raid By John Leyden (john.leyden at theregister.co.uk) Published Thursday 17th March 2005 11:51 GMT A hi-tech bid to steal £220m ($423m) from the London offices of the Japanese bank Sumitomo Mitsui has been foiled by police. A gang of cyber crooks compromised Sumitomo's computer systems in October 2004 prior to an unsuccessful attempt to transfer money to a series of 10 accounts overseas, the FT reports. Yeron Bolondi, 32, was arrested by Israeli police on Wednesday after an attempt to transfer £13.9m to a bank account in the country. He has been charged with money laundering and deception. The plan was thwarted before any cash was transferred, the BBC reports (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4356661.stm). Takashi Morita, head of communications at Sumitomo in Tokyo, told (http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/story.jsp?story=620980) the Press Association that the bank had not suffered any losses as a result of the attempted heist. "We have undertaken various measures in terms of security and we have not suffered any financial damage," he said. Details of how the bank's systems were compromised remain sketchy though several reports implicate the use of key logging software as part of the plot. A spokeswoman for the National High-Tech Crime Unit declined to comment on its ongoing investigation into the attempted robbery of Sumitomo. A spokesman for the bank in London declined to say anything, other than the attempted raid was "a complete failure". -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]