Taiwan seeks 2 Russians in ATM malware heists

Taipei

TAIWANESE investigators suspect two Russian nationals hacked into a major domestic bank's ATMs last weekend, using malware to withdraw more than US$2 million from dozens of automated teller machines in the country's first recorded case of its kind.

Combining cybercrime with daylight robbery after a typhoon battered greater Taipei, the suspects may have used a cellphone to trigger 41 First Bank ATMs to dispense fat wads of bills, investigators said on Wednesday. In each case, the still-at-large suspects took the money and left quickly, filmed on close-circuit TV cameras.