Probe shows money taken from Pune, Mumbai & Kolhapur ATMs

PUNE: Several automated teller machines (ATMs) in Pune, Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Thane and Kolhapur were used by fraudsters to withdraw money as part of the Rs 94.42 crore cyber hack committed on Pune-based Cosmos cooperative bank between August 11 and 13.
“A bulk of these transactions were effected in Kolhapur and Mumbai,” a police officer associated with the investigations by the Pune police's cyber crime cell told TOI on Friday.
The bank’s managing director Suhas Gokhale had lodged an FIR on Tuesday stating that hackers used malware to steal VISA and Rupay debit cards’ information from the bank's ATM switch server and siphoned off Rs 94.42 crore.
Of these, over 12,000 transactions worth Rs 78 crore were effected across 28 countries using the VISA card details and over 2,800 transactions worth Rs 2.5 crore were effected within India using the Rupay card details.
Another Rs 13 crore was transferred to an account in a bank in Hong Kong.
The officer said the fraudsters also used the ATMs in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. “After we get the complete data from the bank, we will know how many ATMs in the state and the other places were used for withdrawals,” he added.
The probe, so far, has revealed that in the state the maximum transactions were made from ATMs in Mumbai and Kolhapur. “Our teams will get the CCTV footage from the ATM kiosks to identify those who withdrew the money,” the officer said.
On the money withdrawn in the 28 countries, the officer said the special investigation team has begun the process to contact these countries. “We are in touch with the central agencies and have started correspondence with some of the countries,” the officer said