crimes
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Hackers Stole $US45 Million In Cash From New York City ATMs
Waving a gun around at a bank is so 10 years ago. With a little tech on their side, a squad of bank robbers based in New York City were able to snag a cool $US45 million in cash with nothing but some hacks and few old key cards that had ATMs across the city…
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Pirate Bay Co-Founder Charged With Hacking And Fraud In Sweden
Pirate Bay cofounder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg has been charged on suspicion that he hacked into a variety of companies, as well as fraudulently withdrawing money from the Swedish Nordea bank. Prosecutors claim he — along with three others — hacked IBM mainframes belonging to tax firm Logica and the bank.
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Samsung Offices Raided By Police Over Alleged LG Technology Theft
Police have raided one of Samsung’s offices in Asan, South Korea, after being tipped off about the possible theft of OLED TV technology from rivals LG. Bloomberg reports that the police were looking for evidence that people connected with LG had leaked secret OLED data to Samsung.
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Man Caught Smuggling Almost 14% Of An Entire Species
Last week at the Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok, authorities arrested a Thai man after discovering 54 Ploughshare Tortoises in a suitcase he retrieved from a luggage carousel. That’s a lot of tortoises, particularly when you consider that the Ploughshare is one of the rarest species on the planet, numbering just 400 around the world.