Attila the Bun rocked a messy updo during her heists.
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These heists give a glimpse of what could lie ahead.
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A cautionary tale warning people not to try their own heists?
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IT WAS one of the most audacious heists in art history.
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"People aren't living the gospel," one pastor said of the heists.
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Virtual heists are common, too, according to the Reuters special report.
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Yet the law is surprisingly rich with attempts to punish humor heists.
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In an infographic, Europol described how group pulled off the sophisticated heists.
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There are heists, high-flying action, and a fun cast of characters.
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But these heists may soon be scuppered by low-tech security measures.
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Officials now admit that other heists have been attempted across Swift's network.
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Other notable heists include Bter, which lost 7,170 bitcoins in 2015; BitMarket.
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Millions of dollars have been lost in various heists over the past year.
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The Great Train Robbery was one of the biggest cash heists in history.
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Ukraine, too, has also been hit in a spree of online bank heists.
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In most cases the heists go unpunished and the perpetrators remain a mystery.
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It's typical action fanfare — heists, shootouts, makeout scenes — built on top of multiple endings.
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At the movie's start, you're introduced to two sets of the heists' main players.
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In the past, crime syndicates have pulled off ATM heists using a similar methods.
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This week, democratizing portraiture, Chinese art heists, Burning Man, Silent Sam, hoarding, and more.
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The incident is thought to be one of the largest cyber heists in history.
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The espionage group's cyber heists are hitting a series of targets, according to FireEye.
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The theft is thought to be one of the largest cyber heists in history.
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Some of the heists are clearly not the carefully planned work of criminal masterminds.
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Gangs involved in such heists include some people from neighboring countries including Botswana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
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Bangladesh's central bank lost a big chunk of change in a series of high-tech heists.
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And according to retail food experts, these grocery heists are not the work of mere hoodlums.
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These suspects, police said at the time, used victims' social media postings to time their heists.
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To paraphrase a probably apocryphal Willie Sutton quote about bank heists: Why rob big-time college athletes?
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And who better to explain how to beat a hasty retreat than an expert in criminal heists?
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Kemp's alleged accomplice in the robberies, Lewis Jones, 35, has also been charged with the store heists.
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The full scale of the criminality is impossible to pinpoint, because many heists never make the headlines.
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RedLock's report comes at a time when cryptojacking heists are increasing as the value of cryptocurrency grows.
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The average amount of money stolen in each of 14 U.S. ATM heists was $500,000 per incident.
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I feel like that speaks to our cultural obsession not only with art, but also with heists.
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Today, the case remain the largest unsolved art heists in history and no arrests have been made.
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These digital heists relied on vulnerabilities in SWIFT, the network used by big banks for international transactions.
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The movies' focus is illegal street racing and heists, featuring reckless driving and souped-up street cars.
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Cash heists were down sharply in June compared to May in a sign of improved policing, he said.
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Earlier this week, SWIFT warned banks around the world to increase security precautions due to the digital heists.
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Tunneling into vaults, or dropping into them through the ceiling, is not just the stuff of Hollywood heists.
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The Ocean's films are about swanky people pulling off heists, each for his or her own personal reason.
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The losses were hundreds of thousands, maybe upwards of a million dollars in some of the bigger heists.
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Dmitry Volkov, head of threat intelligence with Group IB, told Reuters that he expects more heists on ATMs.
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Cyber fraud experts say they expect more big heists because the industry has yet to properly defend itself.
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According to police, this single Romanian gang has been responsible for 17 highway heists in the past two years.
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He even soundtracks his heists to Michael Jackson's "Bad" — just incase you didn't already know how bad he is.
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The first, the one flagged as similar to the SWIFT heists, targeted firms in Ivory Coast and Equatorial Guinea.
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There have also been instances of bank robbers getting caught after posting about their heists on YouTube and Instagram.
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More details about combat and missions (including train heists) will be coming with another gameplay video that Rockstar teased.
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According to local police, the gang is also responsible for 17 similar truck heists in the area, Gizmodo reports.
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Armed heists targeting jewellery stores are not uncommon in the area, where dozens of luxury boutiques align the streets.
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The real Picasso was stolen from an exhibition in Rotterdam in one of the art world's most dramatic heists.
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There were big-ticket heists, too, like the one executed by my co-worker in the fish and reptiles department.
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They told us stories of big vault heists, smuggling runs, expensive cars, women, and all kinds of other exciting stuff.
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The onscreen crime syndicate partners love hatching legal heists in real life, where they've been pranking each other for years.
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Again, the GDPR makes egregious personal data heists untenable over the long term — at least where the regulation has jurisdiction.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Bitcoin's weathered hacks, heists, booms and busts to reign as the king of cryptocurrencies through its first decade.
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The hackers succeeded in moving $6900 million to accounts in the Philippines – one of the largest bank heists in history.
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These women are integral to the heists from the start—but there's still a noticeable gender imbalance in the franchise.
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The gangs are linked to bank heists, drug trafficking and gun-running, with jailed kingpins running their empires via smuggled cellphones.
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Sex, drugs, corruption, betrayal, jewelry heists and mafia warfare — no vice seems left unturned in Netflix's first original French-language series.
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The Offa bank robbery is one of the most audacious heists carried out in the country in recent years, police say.
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There have been at least three dozen heists of cryptocurrency exchanges since 2011; many of the hacked exchanges later shut down.
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"You don't switch from stick-ups to heists if the stick-ups still get all the money you want," explained Epstein.
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In the past decade, it has been blamed for numerous cyber-heists and other hacking attacks in South Korea and elsewhere.
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The casinos on the strip, in an effort to ward off any attempts at cinematic heists, are always on high alert.
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But even as digital crimes are on the rise, old-fashioned heists seem unlikely to ever completely go out of style.
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The newly disclosed heists across Europe follow hacks of ATMs in Taiwan and Thailand, which were widely reported over the summer.
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The FBI, Bangladesh police and other foreign authorities are investigating the incident, which is among the world's biggest known cyber heists.
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They are buying bitcoin futures to gain exposure to the asset while avoiding the hacks and heists that plague the industry.
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Here's a story about a gang that was busted for smuggling a whopping 30 kilos of heroin into the country. Heists?
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Critic- and crowd-pleaser Hell or High Water, a contemporary take on both Westerns and heists, continues to expand into new theaters.
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Too many bitcoin exchanges have experienced spectacular heists, such as NiceHash and Coincheck, or outright fraud, such as Mt. Gox and Bitfunder.
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I would invent elaborate backstories and work with these people — at first awkward strangers, then great friends — to pull off elaborate heists.
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Toni Sammi, a lawyer for ZeniMax, called it "one of the biggest technology heists ever," when he presented oral arguments on Tuesday.
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According to The Guardian, now the valuable fruits are now the target of massive heists, with 40 large-scale thefts since January.
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During one of those heists, the thief punched an elderly woman as he took off with her fish sloshing in a bucket.
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In February, hackers managed to steal around $81 million from a Bangladeshi bank in one of the largest digital heists in history.
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Banks and security researchers have previously identified four similar cyber-heists attempted on financial institutions in Bangladesh, Ecuador, the Philippines and Vietnam.
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Authorities said the series of heists is the largest in Icelandic history and was dubbed the "big Bitcoin heist" by local media.
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Hauri researcher Choi said the code bore similarities with those allegedly used by North Korean hackers in the Sony and bank heists.
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Such heists are also becoming more prevalent, amounting to an estimated $4.6 million in 2015, according to the US Department of Justice.
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CRYPTO-HOPPING At least three dozen heists on cryptocurrency exchanges since 2011 are known; many of the hacked exchanges later shut down.
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The most notorious modern-day jewelry heists Two suspects stole around 100 priceless treasures this week from a castle vault in Germany.
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Financial firms around the world have reviewed defences after a rash of cyber heists involving SWIFT, the latest targeting Malaysia's central bank.
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Thieves carrying out such heists have stolen 63 percent more money this year than in the same period in 2017, according to Pillay.
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The hectic diplomacy, meanwhile, has allowed Mr Kim's envoys to pursue illicit activities, from sanctions-busting to cyber-heists at foreign financial institutions.
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He's in debt to a crime boss named Doc (Kevin Spacey), who, as payment, recruits Baby as a driver for his bank heists.
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And as anyone who played Grand Theft Auto Online can tell you, Rockstar has a handle on turning elaborate heists into something playful.
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Our law enforcement sources say it's not necessarily ALL Crips pulling these heists, but cops definitely suspect they're involved in some of them.
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The gangs have been linked to bank heists, drug trafficking and gun-running, with jailed kingpins presiding over criminal empires via smuggled cellphones.
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All the great art heists of the past three hundred years were pulled off by a female, working solo or with other females.
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The group recently appears to have organized several high-profile digital bank heists, including stealing $81 million from the central bank of Bangladesh.
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Unlike the heists with the Stop Watch Gang, this one was a messy affair, with a police chase, shots fired and an arrest.
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A cybersecurity services company reports that the group behind a recent spate of international digital bank heists attacked at least one U.S. firm.
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According to Hammer, to this day, Lendrum insists his heists were "well-meaning" rescue missions meant to protect the wildlife he supposedly loved.
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The F.B.I. and police departments in several states are trying to determine if some of the heists were done by the same culprit.
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Bangladesh Bank has been able to retrieve only about $15 million of the money stolen in one of the world's biggest cyber heists.
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It allows dozens of players to interact simultaneously in "open world" environments, with bank heists and carjackings at the core of its gameplay.
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Terpin says that these large cryptocurrency hacks are often perpetrated by "college kids who go online in these Discord groups" to organize their heists.
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Instead, Imahara, Belleci, and Byron rank and compare six items on a range of topics, such as jailbreaks, World War II weapons, and heists.
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His joke was based on his experience, which — and I don't like to make assumptions about people, but — probably didn't include many jewelry heists.
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The games are divided into a series of missions, as you work as part of a criminal group to pull off increasingly daring heists.
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That said, the characters involved in the various heists are known for faking illness or their own deaths in order to further their schemes.
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Back in 2004, four students at Kentucky's Transylvania University hatched a plan that would become one of the craziest art heists in American history.
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Steadfast commitment to the new technology and belief that it gives sophisticated criminals the upper hand mean that even some multimillion heists go unreported.
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And we showed how a team of patient hackers took Mexican banks for around $20 million in a series of cyber heists last year.
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We're told this does not appear to be connected to a string of other high-profile makeup heists that have happened in L.A. lately.
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I performed these heists like I was stealing from the till at my day job, which is of course something I absolutely don't do.
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Brazil's notorious gangs have been linked to bank heists, drug trafficking and gun-running, with jailed kingpins presiding over criminal empires via smuggled cellphones.
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"These heists reminded me of one of my favorite movies: 'Heat,'" the 1995 cops-and-robbers movie starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro.
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Some attempted transfers were blocked, but $81 million was transferred to accounts in the Philippines in one of the largest cyber heists in history.
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But while everyone is enjoying themselves, women at the party are pulling heists as they clean Wiz's crib of all available cash and weed.
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Some are buying bitcoin futures as a way to gain exposure without risking the hacks and heists that have plagued the digital currency sector.
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Some are buying bitcoin futures as a way to gain exposure without risking the hacks and heists that have plagued the digital currency sector.
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That did little to assuage the fears of some shopkeepers as criminals organized heists on social networks and instant messaging platforms, such as WhatsApp.
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The heists have forced museums, schools and individual collectors to step up security, buy extra insurance and pay to have experts certify their collections.
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The prosecutor's office in Bobigny, which is handling the highway robbery case, said there were no known links to either of those Paris heists.
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Crossroads is more of a team-based action game built around heists, and it brings back some of the main cast from the films.
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Last month, hackers stole about $530 million from Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck Inc, in one of the biggest-ever heists of digital currency.
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The move came after hackers stole $530 million worth of digital money from its exchange in one of the biggest cyber heists on record.
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Venou heads the Cannes Prestige Security Committee, which was formed in 2013 following a string of high-profile heists, including one at the Carlton Hotel.
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The goal of the heist, like all heists, is money: money that will ostensibly redeem Jimmy, as a father, as a provider, as a worker.
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Cryptocurrencies got another jolt last week after Tokyo-based exchange Coincheck said hackers stole over $500 million in one of the world's biggest cyber heists.
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The kids were caught because they couldn't stop talking about their successful midnight heists into the homes of Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and many others.
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Dave and Kurt accept Scott into their crew instantly, and when they're not planning heists together, they're playing video games and hyping each other up.
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Gotta wonder what secrets she's hiding up those elegant sleeves.... Tobias is the savvy and seasoned leader of a small criminal team specializing in heists.
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The GOP's heist to take back Antonin Scalia's seat is even more incredible and convoluted than any of the heists in these very good movies.
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Brussels-based SWIFT said late last year digital heists were becoming increasingly prominent as hackers use more sophisticated tools and techniques to launch new attacks.
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Unknown cyber criminals tried to steal nearly $1 billion from the Bangladesh Bank in February in what was one of the biggest bank heists ever.
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The theft is thought to be one of the largest digital heists in history and prompted the resignation of former Bangladesh Bank Governor Atiur Rahman.
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Lawmakers are also exploring whether the law could have been used to help prevent a recent series of digital bank heists which have grabbed headlines.
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A continuation of the Steven Soderbergh-helmed franchise starring George Clooney, it's built around the conceit What if women had been involved in those heists?
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Drive was a great movie, but the number of heists in the greater Los Angeles area is a severe limitation on The Driver's total income.
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In one of the art world's most dramatic heists, thieves made off with seven paintings, worth millions of euros, by Picasso, Matisse, Monet and others.
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Some are buying bitcoin futures, seen as a way to gain exposure without risking the hacks and heists that have plagued the digital currency sector.
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"Den of Thieves" opens with unfootnoted statistics about Los Angeles, "the bank robbery capital of the world," where such heists apparently occur every 48 minutes.
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An insurance investigator (Catherine Zeta-Jones) begins investigating him undercover by posing as a thief herself, and the two begin working on other heists together.
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Meanwhile, a joint investigation between The Boston Globe and WBUR tries to crack open one of the most sensational unsolved art heists of all time.
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In the US, the average bank robbery nets around $4,1003 in cash, and the average bank robber pulls off only three heists before getting caught.
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Some $81 million was stolen from the Bangladesh central bank account with the New York Fed this year in one of the biggest-ever cyber heists.
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SWIFT warned banks around the world to increase security precautions due to the digital heists and said they were looking into other possible incidents of fraud.
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As with the mob, the nation's day-to-day petty crimes provide a foundation for the bigger efforts, like the bank heists and cryptocurrency market looting.
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In 2011, a wave of rhino horn heists hit Europe: Some 70 rhino horn goods on display or loan were stolen from museums, castles, and exhibitions.
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I played the original Payday when it first came out way back in 2011, and I enjoyed its Michael Mann-esque take on co-operative heists.
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Just about every victim of the force's big heists were successful drug dealers in the area, which shows how calculated the officers' criminal activity truly was.
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The heists may have required sophisticated hacking tools, but tactics used in the getaway - transporting and stashing the money - are as old as bank robbery itself.
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The heists Stefansson allegedly masterminded were carried out across data centres over Iceland—including in Reykjanesbær, near Reykjavik airport, and Borgarnes on the Icelandic west coast.
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Most of the transfers were blocked, but $81 million was sent to bank accounts in the Philippines in one of the largest cyber-heists in history.
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Most or all of the stolen money, one of the biggest electronic heists in history, is thought to have been transferred to accounts in the Philippines.
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Throughout the 1990s, police referred to Redoine as the "terror of Creil" due to his fierce reputation for ruthless bank heists and armoured van take-downs.
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I covered everything from elections to smuggling ring heists to the winner of the election I covered being gunned down on a beach in broad daylight.
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A system of witnesses, investigating lawmen, bounties, and fragile horses means that your heists and hold-ups can break bad even when you secure the bag.
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Later, the group was tied to a series of digital bank heists utilizing the computer system banks use to request transfers, as well as other attacks.
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The last major casino heists happened in 2015 and 2016 when employees working in Macau's VIP parlors stole millions of dollars from junket rooms in the casinos.
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If you've never seen these tales of bank heists, prolific controversial authors, and triumphant sports teams, make sure to catch up before the calendar turns to August.
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The PCC has a group, the Sintonía Restrita, that is responsible for military operations, bank robberies, heists of security transport vehicles, attacks on prisons to stage jailbreaks.
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The attack on Mexican banks is similar to one of the biggest-ever known cyber heists, when thieves stole $81 million from Bangladesh's central bank in 2016.
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They also arrested Hall's 34-year-old mother for suspicion of grand theft, the LA Times reports, though it's unclear exactly how she's connected to the heists.
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It manages to do all this while also pulling off episodes that include bank heists, impromptu musicals, and forests that may or may not get you high.
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The company said the hacking operation shared "numerous technical links" to the Lazarus Group, North Korean hackers believed to have been behind bank heists around the world.
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Writer James Robinson and artist ACO explore Fury's super-spy side, giving him a world of heists, nefarious Hydra agents, and world-breaking weapons to play in.
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Similarly, Surrealism and Cubism are directly incorporated into the design and animation of Hungary's Ruben Brandt, Collector — which is, appropriately enough, about a series of art heists.
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Last week the snickering stopped with new reports that the hackers struck a second bank, and possibly others—though authorities won't say if those heists were equally successful.
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And yet somehow, in this summer of scamming, IRL grift is easily outpacing the current big-screen visions of cons, heists, hustling, and fraud for sheer escapist satisfaction.
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A cluster of attempted digital robberies at West African financial institutions appear to have been imitating the North Korea-linked Lazarus Group's run of heists, according to Symantec.
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Nothing can stop his joyful bouncing: not botched heists, a story that sharply declines in the third act, or even poor treatment of every on-screen female character.
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But with 400 cases, we can at least take heart in knowing, surely, at least one of the heists went wrong and resulted in some slapstick panic. [Reuters]
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According to Variety, the now 87-year-old once admitted that she "used 20 aliases, 10 Social Security numbers, and nine dates of birth" during her numerous heists.
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His rise to power and financial exploits have been documented in a new book called "Billion Dollar Whale" that calls Low's fraud one of history's greatest financial heists.
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In the film, Hawk, played by Bruce Willis, is just out of prison and gets pulled back into a series of heists, including stealing famous works of art.
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Cyber security experts said they were still lacking many details about the incident but that it could go down as one of the biggest digital heists on record.
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But this year, soaring bee rental fees for California's $6 billion almond crop are attracting a swarm of recent hive heists and leading to stinging losses for beekeepers.
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Aside from bank heists, though, haunted house stories are the most architectural genre of all, so my background in architectural writing definitely wasn't left by the wayside here.
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These heists got me thinking: I bet it would be pretty great to steal a bunch of maple syrup, because then I'd have a bunch of maple syrup.
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As cyber-heists go, it was a big one: the ether were worth about $55m at the time of the attack, about a third of the DAO's assets.
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Even when hackers are stealing credit card details with malware en masse, and carrying out digital bank heists, there's still money to be made by gaming phone networks.
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And sometimes he went as long as six months between heists, particularly after a big score, like the $90,000 he allegedly took from a bank in January 2015.
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Despite the depiction of art heists in movies and television, a vast majority involve works taken from storage areas by employees or people in a position of trust.
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She outlines the psychology at play — even the book's structure mimics the sequence of a con — and includes brief detours to some illustrious and outrageous heists from history.
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Researchers at Recorded Future linked the crypto heists, which targeted both individual users and exchanges in South Korea, to an infamous hacking cyber organization known as Lazarus Group.ADVERTISEMENT
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Hackers used the bank messaging system that helps transmit billions of dollars around the world every day to steal $81 million in one of the largest reported cyber-heists.
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Neither cozying up to Kim Jong-un nor charging an alleged North Korean agent involved in the disastrous WannaCry malware fiasco has stopped Pyongyang from orchestrating digital bank heists.
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Hive heists were rising, with 400 bee or honey thefts reported in the six months to January, police said in an emailed statement, without providing figures for previous periods.
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After years of targeted hacks, epic heists, and run of the mill data breaches you might think that institutions would be getting wise to the importance of strong cybersecurity.
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Financial regulators around the world have recently urged banks to beef up cyber security in the wake of a string of high-profile heists on banks around the world.
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Soon, a few cops and a police helicopter were on the truck's tail, and, like so many seemingly-foolproof heists of the past, the whole scheme came crashing down.
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Current campaigns have been primarily focused on boosting revenue through a combination of daring bank heists and targeted ransomware attacks on victims like municipalities and private companies, researchers said.
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On one day in January, thieves made off with 256 pints of ice cream — including 100 pints of Häagen-Dazs and 100 more of Talenti — in three separate heists.
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That also goes for the adrenaline that the film's hard-pressed thieves, Toby and Tanner (Chris Pine and Ben Foster), summon whenever their early-morning bank heists turn sticky.
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Lady M reported the cake heists to the police last December, and Mr. Lliviganay was arrested on charges related to some of the thefts in February, court records show.
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Bangladesh Bank has threatened to sue Manila-based RCBC, and any legal fallout could set a precedent amid a rash of electronic heists at financial institutions around the world.
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The same group that's spent the last few years pulling off data heists from Omni Hotels & Resorts, Trump Hotels, Jason's Deli, Whole Foods, Chipotle: A mysterious group known as Fin7.
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Synopsis: The unbelievable but mostly true story of four young men who mistake their lives for a movie and attempt one of the most audacious art heists in U.S. history.
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The thieves pulled it off by cutting a hole in the roof and then using the back door, according to TMZ, which seems to be a trend in makeup heists.
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The heists that go down in movie history are the ones that are pulled off so flawlessly, they leave you, the viewer, thinking they could actually happen in real life.
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The key hooks are the story, the characters, the art design, and — on the gameplay side — the allure of slowly building this team of thieves and planning metaphysical heists together.
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In one of the largest cyber heists in history, the hackers ordered the New York Fed to transfer $81 million from Bangladesh central bank funds to accounts in the Philippines.
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What unites this curious cast of characters and enabled one of the most brazen digital bank heists ever is a ubiquitous and highly trusted international bank messaging system called Swift.
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See, "HalloVeen" is the fifth of Brooklyn Nine-Nine's annual Halloween episodes, which have centered on the detectives pulling off increasingly ridiculous heists to prove they can outsmart each other.
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The transfer, one of the largest cyber heists in history, was among 35 requests that unknown hackers made for payments from the bank's New York Fed account in early February.
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Most of the game is set within simulations of your heists, where you time yourself to get in and out, leaving less than footprints and taking nothing but corporate secrets.
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Nivelo explained that he was a seasoned thief, and that the pot of gold he stole in New York was just one of many heists he's pulled throughout the years.
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But as soon as he finishes his sentence, he's blackmailed into pulling one last series of heists or risk harm to his friend and business partner (played by Danny Aiello).
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But by the time he arrived in New York that autumn, he was also a hardened jewel thief, fresh off a streak of heists of mansions and hotels in Miami.
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For months, Icelandic authorities have been searching for clues relating to a string of heists in which thieves managed to make off with around 600 expensive computers used for mining cryptocurrency.
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According to the suspected shooter's brother, Bruce Paddock, their father was Patrick Benjamin Paddock, a high-profile bank robber locked up for a series of armed heists back in the 60s.
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While The Fast and the Furious series is known for its unbelievable street races and heists, Paul Walker actually did some of his own of his own stunts in the films.
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And Holt's beloved pup has played an integral role in the precinct: He's been involved with the annual Halloween heists, and he was the ring bearer at Jake and Amy's wedding.
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The Argo actor is set to play a detective responsible for investigating high-end heists when he gets caught in a mystery involving his missing daughter and a secret government program.
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Bitcoin's record of hacks and heists also undermines its credentials as a kin to gold, he said, adding that it does in theory have the potential to act as a haven.
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A February attack on servers at Bangladesh's central bank that controlled access to the SWIFT messaging system yielded more than $81 million in one of the biggest digital heists on record.
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"It's one of my easiest and biggest heists," Mr. Tomic told reporters on Friday outside the courtroom where he and two men accused as accomplices were on trial for the thefts.
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The threat of digital heists is rising as hackers adopt increasingly sophisticated tools and techniques, SWIFT, the global messaging system used to move trillions of dollars each day, warned last month.
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Last month, SWIFT, the global messaging system used to move trillions of dollars each day, warned that the threat of digital heists is rising as hackers adopt increasingly sophisticated tools and techniques.
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North Korean hackers could leverage knowledge about financial networks gathered during cyber heists to disrupt bank operations, according to Alperovitch, who said his firm has conducted "war game" exercises for several banks.
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Distributors have already started beefing up security to try and fight back against the nut heists—some have even begun requiring thumbprint identification before driver's are allowed to cart the cargo away.
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Attackers earlier this year stole $81 million from a Bangladesh central bank account at the New York Fed in one of the biggest-ever cyber heists, heightening global concerns over cyber security.
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It is one of the biggest cyber-heists to date and came to light via press reports in the Philippines, where the criminals who appropriated the money are thought to be based.
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Coincheck, which in January suffered one of the biggest digital money heists ever, was asked by the Financial Services Agency to improve risk management and prevent further criminal use of digital money.
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And, researchers say, there is evidence they have been exchanging Bitcoin gathered from their heists for Monero, a highly anonymous version of cryptocurrency that is far harder for global authorities to trace.
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Most of the heists in the "Ocean's" series involve Vegas casinos; the booty here is a Cartier chandelier of a necklace that's being taken out of the vault for the Met Gala.
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A North Korean-linked hacking group increasingly is carrying out financially motivated attacks, suggesting that cyber heists are now one of its main activities in cyberspace, according to a new Symantec report.
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The risk paid off: The Alphabet books, which star the Southern California-based private investigator Kinsey Millhone, have been steadily enthralling readers with heists, betrayals and murders for the last 35 years.
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The North Koreans are using everything from ransomware, which lets hackers seize control of a business important systems and then demand payment in exchange for getting out, to outright electronic bank heists.
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Instead, Rebecca and Valencia pull away from Heather to recreate Rebecca's old dynamic with Paula: obsessing over Josh and his girlfriend, and pulling elaborate criminal heists to find out more about them.
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Separately, the U.S. government in September charged a North Korean man it alleged was responsible for the Bangladesh incident and other heists, and detailed the ease with which hackers phished Bangladesh Bank employees.
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Some people have been re-calculating the worth of historical Bitcoin heists, others have lamented how much they paid for literal horse shit in Bitcoin, or how much alpaca socks cost in 2156.
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The well-known premise of the Ocean's franchise — that a group of people with disparate skills get together to perform elaborate heists — lends a nice undercurrent of mischief to the gathering of women.
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It's a retro-futuristic hacking game made in Blendo Games founder Brendon Chung's distinctive blocky style, a series of heists accomplished with a series of computer commands and a crack team of assistants.
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"The real art in art heists is not the stealing, it's the selling," said Wittman, who had recovered more than $300 million in stolen art when he retired in 2008 after 20 years.
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DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh's central bank will file a lawsuit against a Philippines bank over its role in one of the world's biggest cyber-heists two years ago, a deputy governor said on Wednesday.
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The move comes as law enforcement in Bangladesh and the United States have reported little progress in identifying the criminals more than four months after one of the biggest cyber heists to date.
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This week the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT), a network that thousands of banks around the world use to move money, described a recent spate of cyber-heists, which netted $90m.
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It happens in one of the earlier missions, not long after you unplug from the virtual reality game-within-a-game that the player character and her accomplices use to plan their heists.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Coincheck made false explanations to customers about its security system before suffering one of the world's biggest cyber heists, the head of a major cryptocurrency industry group said on Wednesday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania bank robber who earned the nickname "straw hat bandit" for wearing colorful head wear during heists was arrested on Thursday for a string of 11 robberies, authorities said.
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The movie sounds pretty interesting ... Ben plays a detective investigating a string of high-end heists who gets roped into a scandal, sees his daughter go missing and uncovers a secret government program.
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Now intelligence officials estimate that North Korea reaps hundreds of millions of dollars a year from ransomware, digital bank heists, online video game cracking, and more recently, hacks of South Korean Bitcoin exchanges.
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Crowder, forward Amir Johnson, guard Marcus Smart and Crowder again all pulled off the heists, and the Celtics also held Indiana scoreless for the final 2:15, finishing on a 12-203 run.
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Op-Ed Contributor WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans are in the middle of pulling off one of the great political heists in American history: the theft of a seat on the United States Supreme Court.
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Other reports have suggested the attackers may have been the Lazarus Group, an allegedly North Korea-linked hacking organization also believed responsible for an attack on Sony Pictures and bank account heists in Bangladesh.
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There's the more chuckle-worthy and carefree Leverage mode, where White Nights concerns itself with large-scale heists carried out by the perfect team, complete with a female hacker who also brews great tea.
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Alarmed by the theft of $81 million from Bangladesh's central bank in February, one of the world's biggest ever cyber heists, cybersecurity was among the top concerns discussed at Singapore's annual Shangri-La Dialogue.
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From attacks on Ukrainian power grids to central bank heists in Bangladesh and the leak of stolen information from the Democratic National Committee in the U.S., cybersecurity threats have escalated massively in recent years.
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Cyber heists play a role in this illicit scheme, because stolen funds can be used to prop up those front companies, according to Sung-Yoon Lee, a Korea expert who teaches at Tufts University.
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Law enforcement sources tell us ... the 3 guys -- 2 of whom are 18 and one 19 -- committed burglaries in the San Fernando Valley recently and were arrested this week after one of the heists.
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It has recently come into focus as a tool in bank heists after an apparently separate group of digital bank robbers used fraudulent requests to steal $81 million from the central bank of Bangladesh.
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"These heists resembled scenes from the movie Heat – the work of a crew that was well organized, meticulous, and elusive to law enforcement," New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said in a statement.
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While some gangs pull sophisticated hacking heists to steal Jeeps, and others focus on robbing high-profile graves, some, apparently, deal in the lucrative underground market of chocolate trafficking, according to NBC New York.
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Related: Fake Art Heists and Big Ceramic Dicks: Last Week in Art This Sound Sculpture Makes Algorithmic Prank Calls Banksy's Biggest Artwork Ever Opens This Friday Swedish Pranksters Create Underwater Art and Underground Galleries
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The show, which follows a group of bank robbers carrying out bigtime heists in Spain, saw the group coming back together to steal gold from the Bank of Spain in its most recent season.
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Authorities in Oklahoma City arrested a man who sources in the criminal hacking community believe to be one of the most infamous "SIM swappers," who steal cellphone numbers and use them in cryptocurrency heists.
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Yet Lex Sokolin, a partner and global director of fintech strategy at the firm, estimates that as much as 93 percent of crimes go unreported and says the published statistics only represent publicly reported heists.
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Over on Riverdale right now, its teenagers are building gambling den-speakeasy empires, pulling heists, creating elaborate boxing schemes, selling drugs, joining cults, investigating S&M clubs, and sharing a single bunker cot for sex.
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SWIFT is a cooperative of global banks formally known as the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, and its transaction system was used as a conduit for one of the largest cyberbank heists in history.
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They said two other heists in 2011 and 2012 resulted in $15 million in losses and targeted cards issued by JPMorgan Chase & Co and National Bank of Ras Al-Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates.
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There have been at least three dozen heists on exchanges that buy and sell digital currencies since 2011, including one that led to the 2014 collapse of Mt. Gox, once the world's largest bitcoin market.
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So soon the digital bank heists began — an attack in the Philippines in October 2015; then the Tien Phong Bank in Vietnam at the end of the same year; and then the Bangladesh Central Bank.
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Thieves pulled off one of the largest art heists since World War II in the German city of Dresden on Monday and escaped with diamonds and rubies worth an estimated hundreds of millions of euros.
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DHAKA, March 15 (Reuters) - Bangladesh's central bank governor Atiur Rahman said on Tuesday he was prepared to resign after $81 million was stolen from the bank in one of the largest cyber heists in history.
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Mohammad Shah Alam, a senior officer at the criminal investigation department of the Bangladesh police, said Interpol had helped identify the foreigners suspected to be involved in one of the largest cyber heists in history.
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The $17 billion tunnels faced daunting costs and opposition from environmentalists and some Californians who saw it as another in a long line of water heists from the north by Southern California and Central Valley farmers.
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Update: the show will begin airing on December 9th, and will follow Belleci, Byron, and Imahara as they investigate "topics as diverse as jailbreaks, superpower technology, heists and crazy world war two weapons," according to Deadline.
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In February, in one of the world's biggest ever cyber-heists, hackers tried to steal nearly $1 billion from Bangladesh Bank's account at the New York Federal Reserve using fraudulent transfer messages on the SWIFT system.
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SWIFT is a cooperative of global banks formally known as the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, and its transaction system was used as a conduit for one of the largest cyber bank heists in history.
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After briefly venturing into work behind the camera with his 2002 directorial debut "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind," George Clooney returned to his role as Danny Ocean, the smooth-talking criminal mastermind behind the group's heists.
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The trio will do a wide range of activities including: dig into jailbreaks, test the science of superpowers, evaluate some of the craziest heists in history and put their bodies to the test examining G-Force.
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But wait, he did a lot of getting around as a fugitive, and if he's behind the heists he must be part of a large criminal network that can move a huge amount of stolen goods, right?
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Like Sisyphus with his rock, Rory Shayne pushed his way through a violently absurd existence, creating his own purpose by pulling off impossible heists, defiant jailbreaks, and voyages to neighboring dimensions from the confines of his cell.
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Most famously connected to the 2014 Sony hack, the Lazarus Group is believed to have at least worked for North Korea and has security firm Symantec has tied the group to a string of global bank heists.
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Cheddar proved to be useful during the gang's Halloween heists and as ring bearer at Jake (Andy Samberg) and Amy's (Melissa Fumero) wedding, although he ended up passing out from eating the couple's Nakatomi Plaza wedding cake.
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MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippine government wants Bangladesh to share the findings of its investigation into how unknown hackers pulled off one of the world's largest cyber bank heists, to help speed up recovery of the stolen funds.
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"We've seen DDoS attacks against banks used as a smoke screen and cover for other nefarious activities such as cyber-heists ... large value money transfers, or the bulk theft and removal of consumer account data," he said.
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One of the world's biggest ever cyber heists took place in 2016 when fraudsters stole $81 million from the central bank of Bangladesh's account at the New York Fed using fraudulent orders on the SWIFT payments system.
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Wong, who returned $4.63 million and 488.28 million pesos ($10.05 million) to Philippine authorities from millions of dollars he took from two Chinese high-rollers, has denied any role in one of the world's biggest cyber heists.
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The game's most notable element is its tangible, clunky approach to the world of heists and hacking; players drag around a briefcase-enclosed laptop and use rudimentary computer code to interface with the environment in real-time.
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Critic score: 55%Synopsis: The 2004 follow-up to the original crime thriller finds the Ocean's crew in Europe, where Danny Ocean (George Clooney) recruits an extra person to their group to help with the planned heists.
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Trying to take ownership of their own safety and falling victim to rumors, many Hongkongers turned to panic-buying, sparking a run on toilet paper and rice at one point — and even heists on such coveted commodities.
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The incident follows the high-profile theft of $530 million earlier this year at Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck in one of the world's biggest cyber heists that forced regulators to order stepped-up risk management protocols.
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According to a federal affidavit obtained by PEOPLE, detectives saw that a telephone number belonging to Kemp was used at or near the scene of jewelry store heists in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina around when they occurred.
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The comments by Mohammad Shah Alam, head of the Forensic Training Institute of the Bangladesh police's criminal investigation department, are the first sign that investigators have got a firm lead in one of the world's biggest cyber heists.
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So I just started looking into that more in the real world and noticed that even if you read police reports or talk to burglars or the FBI about bank heists, all of it has this architectural angle.
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"Our theory is that during the uninstall [of the malware], something went wrong with the malware and that's why the [log] files were left," says Sergey Golovanov, principal security researcher with Kaspersky in Russia, who investigated the heists.
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The move follows a string of heists and attacks by hackers on lenders and central banks over the past two years, including one that disrupted online and mobile services at the Netherlands' three top banks earlier this year.
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DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh will share findings from its investigation into how unidentified hackers pulled off one of the world's biggest cyber bank heists to help speed up recovery of the stolen funds, its law minister said on Monday.
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At the smaller end of the spectrum, this entails advances such as RICO, a kind of crowdsourcing crime app that enables users to earn cash by serving as anonymous links in the chains of planned heists and kidnappings.
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While the authorities may see her as a master criminal because of her elaborate heists, Carmen, with the help of Player (Finn Wolfhard of "Stranger Things"), stays true to her mission to right the wrongs in the world.
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Wong, who returned $4.63 million and 488.28 million pesos ($10.05 million) to Philippine authorities from the millions of dollars he took from two Chinese high-rollers, has denied any role in one of the world's biggest cyber heists.
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The attack on Mexican banks is similar to one of the biggest-ever known cyber heists, when thieves stole $81 million from Bangladesh's central bank in 2016, said Fermin Gonzalez, head of forensic services at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Mexico.
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A new report from FireEye makes clear that a recent attempt to "name and shame" a North Korean government-affiliated hacker did nothing to curtail the digital heists, and sanctions have only made Pyongyang more eager to steal money.
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Researchers at the cybersecurity company Symantec Corp found the string of code that was used in three recent banks heists in Asia was the same type used to hack into Sony Pictures in 2014 and South Korea in 2013.
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The rest of the money hackers stole from the Bangladesh Bank's account at the New York Federal Reserve, one of the largest cyber heists in history, went to two casinos, officials told a Philippines Senate hearing into the scandal.
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"Grand Theft Auto" has never been better than the latest entry: "Grand Theft Auto V". In "GTA V" you can play as one of three different main characters, carrying off major heists and doing all manner of other madness.
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From stories of in-game heists, to real-life scams, it's a game where players are given a vast galaxy within which capsuleers ( EVE's players) are free to steal, scam, bribe, spy, assassinate, and generally screw each other over.
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When Lady M finally launched an investigation, they allegedly saw Lliviganay and his cake cart on previously recorded security camera footage, and his Wi-Fi log-in records also placed him at the scene of the low-tech heists.
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DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh's central bank has asked the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to join a lawsuit it plans to file against a Philippines bank for its role in one of the world's biggest cyber-heists, several sources said.
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We've seen some big, coordinated ATM heists in recent years, and the FBI has warned of more, but it's a little more fun to imagine this one guy saving up his ill-gotten gains for a retirement like none other.
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Towards the end of its original, educational tenure, it became the scene of one of the most ambitious heists in Britain, with thieves attempting (and ultimately failing) to carry the entire De Beers diamond exhibition away on a singular digger.
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Heists like this have been going back to at least 2012, where a police helicopter once caught a video of another group attempting to act out the same stunt, although they didn't actually end up stealing anything in that case.
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The following are some questions and answers about one of the largest heists of cryptocurrencies in the history: NEM is a cryptocurrency launched in March 2015 by a team of five developers identifying themselves as Pat, Makoto, Gimre, BloodyRookie and Jaguar.
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The criminals behind such heists are exploiting banks' willingness to approve SWIFT requests at face value, rather than making additional manual or automated checks, said John Doyle, who held a variety of senior roles at SWIFT between 1980 and 2005.
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In one of the world's biggest cyber heists, the hackers stole the Bangladesh Bank money held at the New York Fed in February 2016 using fraudulent orders on the SWIFT payments system and sent it to Rizal Commercial Banking Corp .
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He also, obviously, has a love interest, and in amongst the heists and so on, there are also some makeout scenes (as per the lyrics of the song, which begin thus: "Sweet baby, our sex has meaning") that will probably be .
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And with the price and demand for nuts not getting any lower any time soon, the basic economic reality is that the humble nut is by no means immune from the type of food heists usually reserved to fancier foods.
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The people, who had knowledge of parliament's intelligence committee proceedings, told Reuters the National Intelligence Service did not present evidence that North Korean hackers were responsible for one of the largest cryptocurrency heists in history but flagged it as a possibility.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Catholic bishops in the Philippines expressed alarm on Monday over the spread of government-sanctioned gambling through casinos, after a mid-sized bank was dragged into one of the world's largest bank heists and a money-laundering scheme.
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Before that, I was a reporter in our San Francisco bureau, where, among other things, I wrote a lot about both Facebook and security breaches, including two separate heists of Yahoo data that left all three billion of its accounts compromised.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Hackers who stole around $530 million worth of cryptocurrency from the Coincheck exchange last week — one of the biggest such heists ever — are trying to move the stolen "XEM" coins, the foundation behind the digital currency said on Tuesday.
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Enter Bess Khan, a prostitute of South Asian descent who helps Jack realize his ambition as "King Screwsman" by encouraging his ever more daring heists — like stealing from London's ruthless "Thief-Catcher General," Jonathan Wild — as well as his emerging queerness.
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The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation earlier this month sent a private alert to American banks, warning them to be on the lookout for attacks on ATMs following the heists in Taiwan and Thailand, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
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It named them after a security-testing tool known as Cobalt Strike, which the perpetrators used in the heists to help them move from computers in the bank network that were infected with tainted emails to specialized servers that control ATMs.
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Japan's financial regulator said on Monday it would inspect all cryptocurrency exchanges and ordered Coincheck to get its act together after hackers stole $530 million worth of digital money from its exchange in one of the biggest cyber heists on record.
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These are standard gimmicks that follow famous fictional bank heists like the masked presidents in Point Break and clown masks used by bank robbers in The Dark Knight, and as such might not have any connection to the recent clown hoaxes.
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Police say Joey's string of heists began early this year ... when he allegedly nabbed a blue Epiphone Prophecy Les Paul valued at $800, a black Fender Stratocaster worth $699, and a Gibson Les Paul gold top with a $1,900 price tag.
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Dozens of bank and jewellery store heists in the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, Italy and Belgium – in addition to police shootouts, four prison breaks and a stint on Interpol's most wanted list – made him the world's most intimidating baker.
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Add-ons that let you form a biker gang, stage heists and establish an organized criminal empire (among other things) give players carrots to grasp at, and virtual in-game cash — which you can earn or buy outright — pays for all of it.
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" Shayne's flair for theatrics meant that he stood out even in Montreal, a city that had become home to as many as 3753 bank heists annually, and was once labeled by the LA Times as "the bank robbery capital of North America.
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A Philippine court on Thursday held a former bank manager guilty on eight counts of money laundering, the first conviction in one of the world's largest cyber heists, in which $81 million was stolen from Bangladesh's central bank nearly three years ago.
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DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh's central bank was vulnerable to hackers because it did not have a firewall and used second-hand, $10 switches to network computers connected to the SWIFT global payment network, an investigator into one of the world's biggest cyber heists said.
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This low-profile unit, called Central Bank and International Account Services (CBIAS), came under the spotlight last year when it transferred $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank's account into the hands of hackers in one of the largest cyber heists ever.
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As a result, there have been almost 40 thefts since the beginning of the year, according to The Guardian, and we're not talking about one or two avocados from the fruit aisle; reports have emerged of some heists totalling more than 350 avocados.
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MOSCOW/TORONTO (Reuters) - Hackers tried to steal 55 million rubles ($940,000) from Russian state bank Globex using the SWIFT international payments messaging system, the bank said on Thursday, the latest in a string of attempted cyber heists that use fraudulent wire-transfer requests.
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KUALA LUMPUR/LONDON (Reuters) - Malaysia's central bank said on Thursday it was the victim of a cyber attack in which hackers sought to steal money using fraudulent wire transfers, the latest in a series of electronic heists at financial institutions around the world.
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On Tuesday, the group led by tech entrepreneur Robert Ross launched an initiative to raise awareness about the scam, provide resources to victims, and attempt to prevent future heists by putting pressure on cell phone providers, who have been sluggish at stopping hackers.
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At one point, Ms. Voigt said, the global craze for the fish reached such a frenzy that even in Singapore, where the crime rate is so low that a stolen delivery parcel makes headlines, there were four arowana heists in one week.
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The heists, which involve hacking ATMs to rapidly shoot out torrents of cash, have been observed across the United States spanning from the Gulf Coast to New England, Matthew O'Neill, a special agent in the criminal investigations division, told Reuters in an interview.
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The investigation reached a clear verdict: From a world away, and from the comfort of their homes and offices, North Korea's hackers had manipulated transaction records, exploited the system of interbank trust, and pulled off one of the biggest bank heists in history.
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MANILA (Reuters) - A Bangladeshi central bank official's computer was used by unidentified hackers to make payments via SWIFT, and carry out one of the biggest-ever cyber heists, a Bangladeshi diplomat said on Thursday at the end of a Philippine Senate inquiry.
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Wild swings in the price of Bitcoin, the best known of a myriad of digital currencies issued by private companies, cyber heists involving such assets, and fears they may be used for crime have raised calls for concerted actions by global regulators.
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A Philippine panel is trying to fathom how $81 million hacked in February from the New York Federal Reserve account of Bangladesh's central bank wound up with two casinos and a junket operator in the Philippines in one of the biggest cyber heists in history.
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The entourage's hundred thousand dollar heists came to an end when a jewelry store owner reported a woman matching Kemp's in his store, but the conspirators "decided to call off the robbery and left the store," when the owner instructed another employee to call police.
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At the RSA security conference in San Francisco last Friday, penetration tester and security advisor Josu Loza, who was an incident responder in the wake of the April attacks, presented findings on how hackers executed the heists both digitally and on the ground around Mexico.
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It's also a far cry from the strong opposition that national leaders and regulators voiced toward blockchain — and cryptocurrencies in particular — during the run up in Bitcoin and Ethereum prices last year, particularly in the wake of a series of Bitcoin heists by North Korea.
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Lamont Siller, the legal attache at the U.S. embassy, did not elaborate but his comments in a speech in Manila are a strong signal that authorities in the United States are close to naming who carried out one of the world's biggest cyber heists.
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The news came as Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith said the government was waiting to hear the recommendations of an investigation committee to decide whether the central bank should file a suit against the Fed after one of the biggest cyber heists in history.
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MANILA (Reuters) - A Philippine anti-money laundering body has lodged a complaint against owners of a remittance firm it called a "cleaning house" to hide the trail of $81 million looted from a Bangladesh bank, in one of the biggest cyber heists in history.
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Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) has said no funds were lost in the incident, which it identified on Tuesday, and involved falsified wire-transfer requests over the SWIFT bank messaging network, the latest in a series of electronic heists at financial institutions around the world.
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A Department of Justice (DOJ) resolution said it had dropped charges filed by the government's Anti-Money Laundering Council against Philrem Service Corp, which had called the remittance firm a "cleaning house" last year in the movement of funds from one of the world's biggest cyber-heists.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve will lend a hand to Bangladesh's central bank as it sues to recoup losses from one of the world's largest cyber heists, even while the Philippine bank targeted by the lawsuit on Friday called it baseless and beyond U.S. jurisdiction.
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His lawyer hissed to steer the conversation back to Cambridge Analytica — to Facebook's well-trodden PR about how they're "locking down the platform" to stop any future data heists — and the Zuckbot was immediately back in action regurgitating his now well-practiced crisis PR around the scandal.
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By the time I got to the end of Dark Deeds, I realized that while the individual entries in the series don't vary too wildly, Brooks is laying out something a bit more interesting than a series of heists and hijinks of the crew of a starship.
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NEW YORK, May 10 (Reuters) - The three parties directly affected by one of the biggest-ever cyber heists said they agreed on Tuesday to work together to recover $81 million that was stolen, track down the criminals involved and protect the global financial system from other breaches.
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But last week, for the first time since hackers captured $81 million from Bangladesh's central bank in February, Swift acknowledged that the thieves have tried to carry out similar heists at other banks on its network by sneaking into the beating heart of the global banking system.
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The protagonist at first finds a hardboiled thrill in pulling off her heists, but is eventually forced to confront the familial trauma that is said to drive her: it turns out that her mother fell into prostitution, became pregnant, and killed the baby to avoid shame.
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As a teen-age runaway, he served spells in reform schools and then two years in prison for burglary and theft—petty crimes short of his dreams of big-time heists, he said, but "I always got caught"—during which he studied art by correspondence course.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German police offered a reward of half a million euros on Thursday for clues that would help them find mystery robbers who smashed their way into a Dresden museum and made off with a haul of 18th century jewelry in one of Germany's biggest heists.
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On the surface, you might think Melissa McCarthy and Tiffany Haddish's upcoming summer film, The Kitchen, would be a comedy-crime film, in which a team of women band together and hilariously fumble their way through a series of heists — but that couldn't be further from the truth.
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Cyber bank heists such as the one that hit a Bangladesh Central Bank account held by the New York Fed, should not come as a surprise and only serve to highlight that the internet is ill-equipped to deal with the cybercrime, an expert in internet security told CNBC.
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COLOMBO (Reuters) - When Hagoda Gamage Shalika Perera, a small Sri Lankan businesswoman, got a deposit of $29 million in her account last month, she said the funds were expected but had no idea they were stolen from Bangladesh's central bank in one of the largest cyber heists in history.
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Role Call: Marcus Hamilton, the good-ol'-boy Texas Ranger whose last case before retirement is a string of bank heists Jeff Bridges' love affair with Westerns began long before his first Oscar nomination for 1971's The Last Picture Show, a rueful ode to a dying Texas town.
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In a series of interviews this month, Mohammad Shah Alam, a Bangladesh police deputy inspector general who is heading investigations in Dhaka, went into some detail about how insiders at Bangladesh Bank may have helped in the execution of one of the world's biggest cyber-heists last February.
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Behind most great heists is an intricately hatched plot: If you're a professional thief looking to jack rare wine by tunneling through the French catacombs, rob a truck full of iPhones on the highway, or steal a massive gold coin from a museum, a lot of meticulous planning is involved.
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A newly detailed hacker group stole millions of dollars since May 2016 through international heists, including $85033 million from 16 United States banks, according to a report released Monday by security firm Group IB. Group IB nicknamed the hackers "Moneytaker" after the name of the malware used in certain attacks.
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In high school in the Netherlands, he'd organize "heists" to steal upcoming math tests by crawling through the air ducts, not because he was bad at math (though he was) but because you can choose to be like Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible or you can be like everybody else.
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VENICE, Italy, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Brad Pitt has fought in wars, pulled off robbery heists and confronted rivals in the boxing ring during his career, but the Hollywood star says his most challenging film yet is playing an astronaut on a life-saving mission in the space epic "Ad Astra".
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NATIONAL Because of an editing error, the "On This Day in History" feature last Sunday about thieves who broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, committing one of the largest art heists in history, misstated the date on which a New York Times headline about the event appeared.
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More than 14 years after he and an accomplice clambered onto the roof of the Van Gogh Museum here, broke a window with a sledgehammer and lifted the canvases off the wall, Mr. Durham has finally come clean about his involvement in one of the most infamous postwar art heists.
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While truck heists have long been common in Latin America's major economies from Mexico to Brazil, looting of cargoes on roads has soared in Venezuela in recent times and appears to be not just a result of common crime but directly linked to growing hunger and desperation among the population of 30 million.
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In February, in one of the world's biggest ever cyber-heists, hackers tried to steal nearly $1 billion from Bangladesh Bank's account at the New York Federal Reserve using fraudulent transfer messages on the SWIFT system Most of the orders were blocked but $81 million was transferred to bank accounts in the Philippines.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Chinese hackers were possibly behind one of the world's biggest cyber heists, the theft of $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank, a senator in the Philippines said on Tuesday, while a Manila bank manager involved in the case said she was a pawn of senior bankers and unnamed tycoons.
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And one need only look at the various schemes and heists concocted by the North Korean government to obtain hard currency, or by the Iranian government to evade sanctions, to know that those who found this resolution beneficial weren't doing so out of concern for the economic well-being of the global community.
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They noticed some strange coincidences, like how one of the porch bandits seemed to live directly next door to Rober's friend, Cici, and that the car used in one of the heists, a black Ford Focus with a rosary hanging on the mirror, was parked right in front of her house in Pittsburg, California.
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The heists, which involve hacking ATMs to rapidly shoot out torrents of cash, have been observed across the United States spanning from the Gulf Coast in the southern part of the country to the New England region in the northeast, Matthew O'Neill, a special agent in the criminal investigations division, told Reuters in an interview.
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Baby (Ansel Elgort) has acute tinnitus (a constant ringing in the ears) caused by a childhood accident, so he lives his life under earbuds attached to a rotating roster of iPods that provide a constant soundtrack to his daily activities — which happen to include driving the getaway car for a series of bold heists masterminded by Doc (Kevin Spacey).
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The podcast features one-off anthology-style stories ranging from gothic thrillers to Wild West heists; but interwoven between them is the ongoing fantasy-noir story of Juno Steel, a world-weary private eye who lives on Mars and winds up frequently saving the universe — all while trying not to lose his heart to a wily cat thief.
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But everyone in the business can recall one or another infamous crime — clerks forced to open a safe at gunpoint in a dispensary on East Colfax; the murder of a security guard in Aurora — and some spectacular heists have gone largely unreported, as when thieves broke through the roof of one grow and then cut open its safe.
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When Arthur isn't being a dragon-slaying superhero, he has some boisterous fun as a fast-talking wheeler-dealer who dodges the authorities and plans heists with his loyal mates Goose-Fat Bill (Aidan Gillen) and Chinese George (Tom Wu): essentially, he is a character from Mr Ritchie's breakthrough mockney-Tarantino gangster hits, "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" and "Snatch".
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Antitrust's conceit is that NURV is on its way to becoming the most powerful tech company in history (including Microsoft, which canonically exists in this universe), yet it's so afraid of antitrust regulators that it will carry out elaborate and deadly heists to avoid officially acquiring a competitor, despite having already infiltrated the government agency responsible for investigating antitrust claims.
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This one was hard to rank, not only because it wasn't one of the GRTA experiences but also because "a sex scene where Justin Theroux is an octopus merman with anime hair screws a purple fish-woman designated as the high priestess of the lost continent of Atlantis" is just on an entirely different level to lemur heists and a dancing zombie.
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After a string of successful heists, Jackley decided he wanted to use a real gun for future crimes, so he set off to the US to buy one that he could smuggle back to the UK. This plan was foiled almost before it had begun: The owner of the shop he tried to buy a gun from was a former police officer who immediately recognized his ID as fake.
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Senator Tom CarperThomas (Tom) Richard CarperAmerica is in desperate need of infrastructure investment: Senate highway bill a step in the right direction FARA should apply to Confucius Institutes The 23 Republicans who opposed Trump-backed budget deal MORE (D-Del.) this week sent letters to the DHS and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) officials asking how both organizations are reacting to a recent series of digital bank heists and working to prevent new ones.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads "International art thief" evokes images of glamorous heists starring, say, Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones, or high intrigue à la Last Seen, the excellent podcast from WBUR about the 1990 heist the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, which remains the biggest art theft in history — but in truth, the majority of art theft takes place on a small scale and under rather banal circumstances.
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Directed by Bart Layton, American Animals tells the story of four young men in Lexington, Kentucky, who decide they're going to pull off one of the most insane heists in American history, by stealing James Audubon's Birds of America from the library at Transylvania University; that book alone is worth $20 million, and maybe they'll pick up some other rare books along the way, like a very old copy of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.
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Whether you're a consumer, a techie or a D.C. lifer, we're here to give you ... THE BIG STORIES: --NEW HACKER GROUP STOLE MILLIONS FROM U.S., WORLD BANKS: A newly detailed hacker group stole millions of dollars since May 2016 through international heists, including $85003 million from 16 United States banks, according to a report released Monday by security firm Group IB. Group IB nicknamed the hackers "Moneytaker" after the name of the malware used in certain attacks.
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