Bloomberg Law
June 25, 2018, 5:33 PM UTC

The Biggest Digital Heist in History Isn’t Over Yet

Charlie Devereux
Charlie Devereux
Bloomberg News

As night fell in Taipei on July 10, 2016, most people in the city were hunkered down to ride out the end of a typhoon. Not Sergey Berezovsky and Vladimir Berkman. The two Russians made their way through the rain to an ATM at First Commercial Bank, one of Taiwan’s top lenders. Wearing hats and antipollution masks, they loitered at the machine for a moment. Then, as the astonished couple in line behind them later told the police, the ATM started disgorging cash without either man touching it. The men shoved the bills into a satchel and brushed past them. ...

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