Police arrests bank accounts' hackers
The Zone 2 Command, Onikan, Lagos has smashed a syndicate that specialised in hacking into bank customers’ portals to move money from different customers accounts. Two suspected members of the syndicate have been arrested by the zonal command, with the recovery of victims' SIM cards with which monies were withdrawn. It was gathered that preliminary investigation by the zone revealed that the suspects identified as Yusuf Ademola (40) and Adeshina Abiodun (50), arrested in their hideout in Ijebu-Ode area of Ogun State, had succeeded in moving money from no fewer than 1,000 bank customers' accounts. Members of the syndicate, it was gathered, were spread all over the country and were very coordinated, as some of them specialised in collating SIM cards from stolen phones from one state, passed them to another team that would sort out the victims’ banks, before transferring them to their members in other states, who would use the bank’s code to get...