The Munich police’s cybercrime investigators have tracked down three men and two women who are suspected of defrauding a senior citizens’ home in Neuhausen of around 60,000 euros last October. To do this, the gang first found out the access data for one of the institution’s online banking accounts, then decoupled the Tan process with which financial transactions had to be confirmed, and then reinstalled it on their own devices.
They then transferred money a total of eleven times to bank accounts in Germany and Lithuania. After the senior citizens’ home’s accounting department noticed the unauthorized transactions, the cyber crime commissioner 122 began investigating computer fraud, spying on data and data alteration. The officers came across five suspects between the ages of 29 and 57, with residences in Germany and Romania.
Last Wednesday, two apartments in Munich and Baden-Württemberg were searched. A 43-year-old from the Rhein-Neckar district is now in custody, while the judge initially released the remaining suspects.