Over a thousand local residents and tourists’ bank card information are suspected of having been stolen from 24-hour ATM machines on San Ma Lo (Avandia de Almerida Ribeiro) and the Grand Canal shopping area inside The Venetian according to Judiciary Police. The police say they had received reports from five banks that a total of 26 clients reported withdrawal attempts made with their card in Vietnam and Malaysia. Upon investigation, police said the card information was stolen by an East European criminal group. Two Bulgarian men were arrested at the scene after re-entering Macau and checking into a hotel in Taipa. They were uploading such information to the cloud on the Internet for compliances in the overseas download. Police say the ATMs in question were installed with card readers and hidden cameras that are hard to detect and asked residents to be on the alert by covering passwords which should not be too simple.
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