Incident
New York ATM cash-out heist
incident:new_york_atm_cash_out_heist
Also: New York cell attack, second attack
The coordinated February 2013 operation in which eight cashers withdrew approximately $2.8 million from ATMs across Manhattan.
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New York ATM cash-out heist
INVOLVES
ATM cashing
The New York heist involved cashers repeatedly withdrawing money from ATMs.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 173
Details
“All at once these eight cashers from Yonkers walked up to ATMs at banks spread across the city”
Jack Rhysider ·
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cloned payment card
The heist involved cloned cards made from stolen debit-card details.
Explicit
Confidence 97%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 173
Details
“they can encode that onto a blank card”
Jack Rhysider ·
offsets 8780–8820
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card writer
The crew used card-writing equipment while preparing the cards for the heist.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 173
Details
“they got some blank cards and a writer and started getting ready”
Jack Rhysider ·
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prepaid debit cards
The prosecutor described the attackers' use of prepaid debit cards whose account limit had been raised dramatically.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Loretta Lynch
EP 173
Details
“They look at prepaid debit cards because they’re not tied to an individual”
Loretta Lynch ·
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credit card processors
Loretta Lynch said the operation required compromising or gaining control inside credit-card processors, and that the processor or bank might discover the withdrawals.
Explicit
Confidence 98%
· Loretta Lynch
EP 173
Details
“It takes anywhere from two to eighteen months to execute the kind of control needed to really get inside these credit card processors”
Loretta Lynch ·
offsets 36221–36354
“before the credit card processor or the bank or someone else discovered what they were doing”
Loretta Lynch ·
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United States
The heist targeted ATMs and banks in New York City, United States.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 173
Details
“they stole $2.8 million from banks all across New York”
Jack Rhysider ·
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Alberto Yusi Lajud-Pena
Alberto was the organizer and leader of the eight-person New York cashing crew involved in the heist.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 173
Details
“Alberto had the plans”
Jack Rhysider ·
offsets 9997–10018
“Alberto gave the signal, and people started heading home”
Jack Rhysider ·
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Elvis
Elvis joined Alberto's cashing crew and participated in the ATM operation.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 173
Details
“There was Alberto and Elvis and their friends, Amir, Jose, Yael, Chung, Juan, and Evan”
Jack Rhysider ·
offsets 9681–9767
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Amir
Amir was one of the eight people in Alberto's crew involved in the ATM heist.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 173
Details
“There was Alberto and Elvis and their friends, Amir, Jose, Yael, Chung, Juan, and Evan”
Jack Rhysider ·
offsets 9681–9767
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Jose
Jose was one of the crew members who carried out the ATM withdrawals.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 173
Details
“Jose was one of the guys in Alberto’s crew”
Jack Rhysider ·
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Yael
Yael was one of the eight people in Alberto's crew involved in the ATM heist.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 173
Details
“There was Alberto and Elvis and their friends, Amir, Jose, Yael, Chung, Juan, and Evan”
Jack Rhysider ·
offsets 9681–9767
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Chung
Chung was one of the eight people in Alberto's crew involved in the ATM heist.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 173
Details
“There was Alberto and Elvis and their friends, Amir, Jose, Yael, Chung, Juan, and Evan”
Jack Rhysider ·
offsets 9681–9767
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Juan
Juan was one of the eight people in Alberto's crew involved in the ATM heist.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 173
Details
“There was Alberto and Elvis and their friends, Amir, Jose, Yael, Chung, Juan, and Evan”
Jack Rhysider ·
offsets 9681–9767
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Evan
Evan was one of the eight people in Alberto's crew involved in the ATM heist.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 173
Details
“There was Alberto and Elvis and their friends, Amir, Jose, Yael, Chung, Juan, and Evan”
Jack Rhysider ·
offsets 9681–9767
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global crime ring
Authorities described the New York cell as part of a global crime ring.
Attributed
Confidence 97%
· John
EP 173
Details
“authorities say they’re just the New York cell in a global crime ring”
John ·
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ATTRIBUTED_TO
Seagate
Jack identifies Seagate as the mastermind behind the broader operation connected to the New York heist.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Loretta Lynch
EP 173
Details
“the mastermind behind all this was a guy named Seagate”
Loretta Lynch ·
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