The Big Heist that Almost Worked
The Big Heist that Almost Worked
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Two men have been convicted for their part in trying to pull off a £229m heist at the Sumitomo Mitsui Bank in London.
In one of the biggest attempted bank thefts in Britain, they used hi-tech equipment to try to steal money from the accounts of big businesses.
Hugh Rodley, 61, of Twyning, near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, and sex shop owner, David Nash, 47, from Durrington, West Sussex, were foiled only at the last minute by the complexities of inter-bank money transfers.
On the early evening of 16 September 2006, two men arrived at the reception desk of the Sumitomo Mitsui Bank in London. One asked for the bank’s security supervisor, Kevin O’Donoghue.
He had a distinctive European, possibly Belgian, accent but the receptionist thought nothing of it. After all, this was the London branch of a major Japanese merchant bank with global interests and investments.
Hugh Rodley
Hugh Rodley, involved in the heist, is a self-styled lord of the manor
What she did not know was that the two men led upstairs by security chief O’Donoghue were expert hackers – and they had come to the bank to implement the first stage of the most audacious, and potentially lucrative, cyber snatch in history.
Police do not know how long the gang had been planning the operation. And those now convicted are certainly not those behind the plan.
When questioned, Kevin O’Donoghue, 34, from Birmingham, claimed that he had been coerced into helping and that his family had been threatened. He later admitted a charge of conspiracy to steal.
CCTV images showed him laughing and joking as he showed the two Belgian cyber-thieves to a terminal in one of the trading offices.
Jan Van Osselaer from Belgium and Gilles Poelvoorde from France, who admitted a charge of conspiracy to steal, had come prepared.
They used a USB memory stick to instal “keylogger” software on various workstations that recorded every button pressed by users.
‘No kingpin’
A few days later, they returned and downloaded the data from the keylogger programmes. They now had the usernames and passwords of every bank employee who had used the infected computers.
But Kevin O’Donoghue had made some mistakes. He had tampered with some of the CCTV cameras – even cutting the wires on one – in an effort to cover the gang’s tracks. Other employees started to wonder why he had started enquiring about creating extra access badges.
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09/03/2009 at 12:12 am Permalink
Ha Ha. Stupid bankers. Live by the sword die by it fuckers. Bankers have been gaming the system for ages in the US and the UK. They deserve to get sodomized for their golden parachutes by hackers. Too bad they weren’t f-d in the a by these guys. I say hang the bankers and claw back their earnings to pay the shareholders who have been f-d by them. Send the shitbags to Guantanamo for threatening the global financial system. It’s treason homie.
12/03/2009 at 4:40 pm Permalink
How about this one?
In February 2003, Notarbartolo was arrested for heading a ring of Italian thieves. They were accused of breaking into a vault two floors beneath the Antwerp Diamond Center and making off with at least $100 million worth of loose diamonds, gold, jewelry, and other spoils. The vault was thought to be impenetrable. It was protected by 10 layers of security, including infrared heat detectors, Doppler radar, a magnetic field, a seismic sensor, and a lock with 100 million possible combinations. The robbery was called the heist of the century, and even now the police can’t explain exactly how it was done.
The loot was never found, but based on circumstantial evidence, Notarbartolo was sentenced to 10 years. He has always denied having anything to do with the crime and has refused to discuss his case with journalists, preferring to remain silent for the past six years.
Until now.
http://www.wired.com/politics/law/magazine/17-04/ff_diamonds