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Nabbed ATM Hackers from Haryana in Joint Operations

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Nagpur: Two ATM Hackers, Anees Khan and Mohd Taleeb, were picked up from Palwal in Haryana earlier this week through joint operations involving city police and their local colleagues.
Duo, is a former bank employee, is allegedly behind the theft of Rs 6.75 Lakh of the four ATMs of the Indian state bank (SBI) from various parts of the city between July 14 and 16 this year.
Police said the Talib ATM card was being abused for hacking and theft.
He has shared his card with Iqbal Khan and Anees.
While Anees and Talib were taken to City after producing it before Jaipur Court in Rajasthan, Iqbal could not be arrested.
New from past knowledge about technology, especially the gap in the security protocol of one ATM machine brand, the hacker police said it seemed to have studied the method of the crime on Youtube channels and videos.
The involvement of ATM hackers in the same theft after hacking ATM software elsewhere in the country was not ruled out by CP Amitesh Kumar on Tuesday.
“The police have also seized a new car from the duo.
Cars are hypothed by HDFC banks that have helped us to collect details of the two ATM hackers, their addresses and cellular telephone numbers,” he said.
According to senior police officers, city police will now warn the RBI also regarding innovative ATM hacking techniques that target certain brands of ATM machines and RS 5,000 repeatedly without letting it recorded as transactions in account.
“The way in which ATM software is compromised to withdraw cash but avoiding recorded or updated transactions in the account has surprised us.
It needs to be explored with technical experts from banking management and ATM technicians,” CP said.
“The hackers have used an ATM card from the account holder from Palwal belonging to HDFC Bank,” he said.
“We feel the ATM machine from certain brands is very vulnerable to hacking techniques throughout India used by the perpetrators arrested by us,” he said.
Experienced their modus operandi, both of them had stolen cash from ATMs at Bajaj Nagar, Pratap shutter, Central Avenue and Wardhaman Nagar.
Police said this case was detected through a technical investigation approach.
Mobile phone details of the four locations where theft has been collected and analyzed based on ‘most or often called’ people ‘.
General cellphone numbers are traced to measure the possibility of the location of the perpetrator.
It knows that the details of the mobile tower have underlined the route used by ATM hackers to return to their original place after stealing cash.
CP says CCTV recording in a relevant location at a certain time (confirmed by the mobile tower location) helps the police zero on the car registration number used by hackers.
“RTO is approached to ensure the details of the car that shows that it is hypothensed.
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