Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
How Cyber Sleuths Cracked an ATM Shimmer Gang
In 2015, police departments worldwide started finding ATMs compromised with advanced new "shimming" devices made to clone data from chip card transactions. Authorities in the United States and abroad had seized many ...
Boss of ATM Skimming Syndicate Arrested in Mexico
Florian "The Shark" Tudor, the alleged ringleader of a prolific ATM skimming gang that has stolen hundreds of millions from tourists visiting Mexico over the past eight years, was arrested in Mexico ...
Mexican Politician Removed Over Alleged Ties to Romanian ATM Skimmer Gang
The leader of Mexico's Green Party has been removed from office following allegations that he received money from a Romanian ATM skimmer gang that stole hundreds of millions of dollars from tourists ...
Promising Infusions of Cash, Fake Investor John Bernard Walked Away With $30M
September featured two stories on a phony tech investor named John Bernard, a pseudonym used by a convicted thief named John Clifton Davies who's fleeced dozens of technology companies out of an ...
Romanian Skimmer Gang in Mexico Outed by KrebsOnSecurity Stole $1.2 Billion
An exhaustive inquiry published today by a consortium of investigative journalists says a three-part series KrebsOnSecurity published in 2015 on a Romanian ATM skimming gang operating in Mexico's top tourist destinations disrupted ...
Report: ATM Skimmer Gang Had Protection from Mexican Attorney General’s Office
A group of Romanians operating an ATM company in Mexico and suspected of bribing technicians to install sophisticated Bluetooth-based skimmers in cash machines throughout several top Mexican tourist destinations have enjoyed legal ...
