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'Analyzer' caught by security cameras
By Ofri Ilani

Ehud Tenenbaum, the computer hacker known as the Analyzer, was caught thanks to security cameras installed by ATM machines, according to details released by prosecutors in Canada, where he was arrested for theft and fraud totaling 1.8 million Canadian dollars.

Tenenbaum is suspected of hacking into the computers of Direct Cash Management in Calgary and compromising the company's debit cards. He is now being held pending a U.S. extradition request, though a Calgary judge had ordered him released on $30,000 bail, Canadian papers reported.
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According to the Wired Web site, which provided the first details of the case, Tenenbaum's confederates purchased several of these debit cards, which are sold for a minimal fee - about 15 Canadian dollars. They then provided Tenenbaum with the card number and account number for each card. Next, Tenenbaum allegedly changed the cards' information in the Direct Cash Management database using an "SQL injection attack." Finally, he sold the card data to others around the world, who encoded blank cards with the new information. That enabled them to withdraw 1.8 million Canadian dollars over a period of three or four days before they were caught.

Prosecutors said that Tenenbaum and others were caught when they were filmed withdrawing money from the ATMs after the company had discovered it was missing $1.4 million.

The Canadians have yet to decide whether to extradite Tenenbaum, whom American officials suspect of breaking into computers around the world and stealing millions. He allegedly headed a network of hackers who broke into the computers of financial institutions in Russia, Sweden, Holland, Turkey, Germany and other countries.
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