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Northern Bank Hit Again

Just when you thought that the Northern Bank in Belfast, had seen it all with the Largest Bank robbery that the UK has ever seen (£26.5 million), from it’s headquarters last year, as now been the victim of another scam that has netted thieves more cash from the Northern Banks vaults.

In this new hit on the bank, the crooks this time have used a set up, that sees them being able to hack into the banks computer systems and then with the use of a stolen credit card, they can then withdraw cash from the ATM, but the twist in this crime, was that they were able to, take the cash from the banks own cash, without the money being accredited as coming from the account of the stolen credit card’s owner.

The Northern Bank has now had to install, new computer software, to deter the chances of a repeat performance, coming they’re way from the hi-tech crooks.

A spokesman for the bank said that “ We have done is to install new software into our ATM’s to prevent this from occurring again and to make sure that the ATM’s of the Northern Bank are safe for our customers to use” and he also made it clear that none of they’re customer’s were affected by the theft and it was committed against the bank only. He would not release any information on how the crooks had carried it out and what methods they had used.

The Association for Payment Clearing Services (APACS), have claimed that this maybe the first instance of this type of fraud happening in the UK. Though they have stated that this type of fraud can be counteracted and the public should have no cause for alarm.

Every bank in the province has been alerted to the scam, and takes the whole process of fraudulent acts aimed at them as very serious indeed and with more and more banks becoming targets and having massive amounts of cash stolen from each and every year, then it looks as if it is going to be a battle within the war on fraud.

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