UK police charge 4 over cyber bank robbery attempt

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AP London
Last Updated : Sep 14 2013 | 6:05 PM IST
British police have charged four men with attempting to rob a bank by taking control of its computer system.
Police say the suspects were arrested after a bogus maintenance engineer tried to install a keyboard-video-mouse a device typically used to control several computers at once on a computer at a branch of Spanish bank Santander.
Detectives say the hardware could have "allowed the suspects to take control of the bank's computer remotely."
London's Metropolitan Police today said Lanre Mullins-Abudu, Dean Outram, Akash Vaghela and Asad Ali Qureshi, aged 25 to 35, had been charged with conspiracy to steal and would appear in court today.
Eight other suspects have been released on bail pending further inquiries. Santander said none of its staff was involved in the attempted heist.
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First Published: Sep 14 2013 | 6:05 PM IST

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