A bank ATM piracy involving at least three nationalised banks and a private bank have left 76 account holders robbed of Rs 18-20 lakh, Kolkata Police sources said.
The most number of customers whose accounts have been hacked are from the Canara Bank, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Praveen Tripathi said on Wednesday. The other banks are Punjab National Bank and a couple of branches of Union Bank of India, he said adding the police have specific leads about a gang that had defrauded the customers by cloning their Debit cards.
Most number of such withdrawals have been made from ATMs situated in Delhi. “Withdrawals have been made from ATMs at Munirka, Hauz Khas and Kalkaji,” he said adding a SIT headed by a DCP was investigating into the case. “We have thus far received 76 complaints of ATM accounts being looted,” he said.a