BANGKOK: Thailand has suffered its first ATM (automatic teller machine) hack, which affected 21 cash machines in Bangkok and other provinces resulting in stolen cash totalling more than Bt12mil (RM1.4mil), while another 200 ATMs are suspected of having been infected with computer viruses.
Police said the incident involving ATMs at the Government Savings Bank (GSB) earlier this month was similar to hacking attacks in Taiwan and Malaysia, where money was stolen from ATMs after malware was used to trick the affected machines into releasing cash without authorisation.
