At least 100 suspects stole over $13 million in three hours on Sunday, withdrawing money from hundreds of ATMs using forged credit cards.
The massive scheme used stolen data of some 1,600 credit cards issued by a South African bank to create fake credit cards.
The suspects then started withdrawing maximum amounts of 100,000 Yen (about $913) from ATMs in Tokyo and other prefectures in Japan on Sunday, May 15, at about 5 a.m.
In three hours they made over 14,000 withdrawals from 1,400 ATMs in convenience stores.
They must have been in close contact with each other, possibly members of an international crime organization, authorities said, according to The Yomiuri Shimbun.
News reports don’t indicate that any of the suspects have been apprehended.
