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Bank robbers pose as IT guys, rig device to slurp 1.3m from Barclays

Met Police said that the money was. funneled out of the. branch, located in the. north London. Borough of Camden, in April. Met Police statement: Police have arrested eight men in. connection with a 1.3 million ($2.2 million) bank heist carried out with a remote-control device they had the. brass to plug into a Barclays branch computer. The hardware included a KVM (keyboard, video monitor and mouse) switch and a 3G dongle that enabled the crooks to slurp money from accounts, according to Met Police.”]

Source: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/09/21/bank-robbers-pose-as-it-guys-rig-device-to-slurp-1-3m-from-barclays/

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