{"id":124519,"date":"2016-05-23T08:27:52","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T06:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=124519"},"modified":"2016-05-23T09:22:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T07:22:24","slug":"r199-million-stolen-using-south-african-credit-cards-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/124519\/r199-million-stolen-using-south-african-credit-cards-report\/","title":{"rendered":"R199 million stolen using South African credit cards: report"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Japanese news publication Mianichi reported<\/strong><\/a> that 1.4 billion yen (R199 million) was stolen from 1,400 ATMs\u00a0in convenience stores in Japan in the space of two hours on 15 May.<\/p>\n

According to the report, \u201cpolice suspect that the cash was withdrawn at ATMs using counterfeit credit cards containing account information leaked from a South African bank\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cJapanese police will work with South African authorities through the International Criminal Police Organization to look into the major theft, including how credit card information was leaked,\u201d said Mianichi.<\/p>\n

The ATM transaction data \u201csuggests that information from 1,600 credit cards issued by a South African bank was used\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Yomiuri Shimbun reported<\/strong><\/a> that \u201ceach transaction involved the removal of \u00a5100,000, the maximum withdrawal limit set for ATMs, and there were more than 14,000 transactions in the case\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cPolice suspect that a group of more than 100 people extracted the money from the ATMs, which were located in Tokyo and 16 prefectures,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n

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Standard Bank issued a statement<\/a> saying that it was their cards that were used.<\/p>\n

More on leaks<\/h3>\n

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South African company exposed in Panama Papers global data leak<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Zuma\u2019s nephew features in massive global data leak of the rich and famous<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Hackers leak SA government\u2019s sensitive financial data<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

R199 million has been stolen from ATMs in Japan with counterfeit credit cards using account information leaked from a South African bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":18685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[961],"tags":[26,5882],"class_list":["post-124519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","tag-headline","tag-leak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124519"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124545,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124519\/revisions\/124545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}