Police have prevented a huge online bank robbery attempt from taking place over the Internet. Thieves planned to steal $534million from a London branch of Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui bank（株式会社三井住友银行）. The robbers planned to send the money electronically to 10 different bank accounts around the world. They used special hacking software that could record the sequence of keystrokes that computer users made on their keyboards. This made it easy for the gang to find bank account numbers, passwords, and other confidential information to find out which customers had the most money. One member of the gang supposedly worked at Sumitomo and installed the keystroke-reading software onto the bank’s computers.

　　A public relations officer from the Tokyo branch of the bank said no money had been stolen. He said the bank’s IT security staff told British police last October that they suspected they were under attack. Detectives from Britain’s National Hi-Tech Crime Unit then started investigating. They arrested a 32-year-old Israeli man yesterday in connection with the planned robbery. Police are questioning him now in Tel Aviv and expect to make more arrests. They have warned all banks and businesses to take extra care of their computer security, as cyber criminals are becoming more and more skilled.

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