Jared Savage reports:
The FBI has been asked to help police investigate an international cyber-crime syndicate that hacked into a council-owned carpark to steal credit card details from thousands of customers.
The theft of credit card details from payment machines at the Downtown carpark in central Auckland was discovered in November. It had gone undetected for some time.
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The scale of the fraud has been shrouded in secrecy, as neither organisation has been forthcoming about the failings of the security system.
But the total amount stolen with the credit cards is believed to be hundreds of thousands of dollars, rather than millions.
Read more in the New Zealand Herald.