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posted by cmn32480 on Friday June 26 2015, @12:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the show-me-the-money dept.

The U.S. will get a rare chance to prosecute one of the world's most-wanted cybercriminal suspects with the extradition of a Turkish man accused of orchestrating a global operation to hack automated teller machines.

Ercan Findikoglu, 33, boarded a flight to New York on Tuesday after losing his fight against extradition from a German prison, according to a law enforcement official who asked for anonymity because the operation wasn't yet public. He was arrested during a trip to Frankfurt by German authorities in December 2013 after eluding U.S. capture for five years.

Findikoglu allegedly organized a criminal operation that stole $40 million in cash from ATMs within 10 hours in February 2013 in New York City and 23 other countries, according to a ruling in his extradition case from the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. The so-called unlimited cash out operations used hacked debit cards with withdrawal limits removed to make ATMs spew money.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Gravis on Friday June 26 2015, @01:05AM

    by Gravis (4596) on Friday June 26 2015, @01:05AM (#201325)

    perhaps it's just me but i think there are better ways to spend money than to catch a petty cybercrook. seriously, how about we enact laws that punish companies for putting out vulnerable software? criminals like this only exist because companies are so lax on securing their systems as a result of never being punished for not doing so. btw, how does $40M compare to what the banks have done to us and gotten away with?

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  • (Score: 2) by zugedneb on Friday June 26 2015, @01:12AM

    by zugedneb (4556) on Friday June 26 2015, @01:12AM (#201327)

    The Show must go on...
    On and on, does anybody know what we are looking for...

    /queen

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    old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax
  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2015, @01:13AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2015, @01:13AM (#201328)

    I was wondering how long it would be for the first "Poor guy. It's not his fault, it's the big bad corporations who drove him to it." type of comment.

    Two. Not bad, but room for improvement.

  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Friday June 26 2015, @01:41AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Friday June 26 2015, @01:41AM (#201336) Journal

    Corpocrooks writes the law so they can continue.