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The Lazarus Heist S2: 1. Jackpotting

Cyber Hack

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Visa's Ugly Messages About Suspect Transactions

Bank in South Asia suddenly gets urgent messages about suspicious transactions. It's what alerted the central bank of Bangladesh to the attempted billion dollar hack that we covered in Season 1. This time, the calls are coming from Visa, one of the world's largest card payments companies. In terms of Indian money, I don't know, 94 crore rupees had gone. Some $14 million. That's 12,000 separate jackpotting incidents from different ATMs. The hackers had done their best to cover their tracks.

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