Pune Cosmos Bank cyber attack: Supplementary chargesheet filed against five from Thane

All five are currently under judicial custody and lodged in Yerwada Central Prison. Police said the five accused are “money mules” who had allegedly withdrawn money to the tune of Rs 61 lakh from different ATMs in Jaipur and Indore.

Deputy Commissioner of Police, cyber crime, Sambhaji Kadam confirmed that another supplementary chargesheet was filed before the court on Thursday in the Cosmos Bank cyber attack case.

In one of the biggest cyber attacks on an Indian bank, several cloned debit cards of the Cosmos Cooperative Bank, which has its headquarters in Pune, were used for thousands of ATM transactions from India and 28 other countries in a period of seven hours on August 11, 2018.

While nearly Rs 78 crore was withdrawn in more than 12,000 ATM transactions outside India, another 2,800 transactions were made in different places within India, to the tune of Rs 2.5 crore.

Further, on August 13, more than Rs 13.5 crore was transferred to a Hong Kong-based entity using the Society for Worldwide Interbank Telecommunications (SWIFT) facility. While transactions outside India were done through VISA cards, those in India were done via Rupay cards, probe has revealed. A total of Rs 94 crore was siphoned off.