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The Government Savings Bank (GSB) of Thailand announced yesterday it shut down around 3,300 of its 7,000 ATMs nationwide following the discovery of a heist that allowed crooks to get away with $378,000 (12 million baht). The ATM heists took place between August 1 and 8 and targeted ATMs sold by NCR, a US-based corporation that makes kiosks, payment systems, and other hardware used in the financial market. Following the discovery of the incident, the Bank of Thailand (BoT) has warned all local banks that deploy NCR ATMs. BoT say that there are over 10,000 NCR ATMs across Thailand. GSB shut down 47 percent of its ATMs when it put its NCR ATMs offline. The bank didn't take down all NCR ATMs, leaving 600 still running, but these are in well-guarded locations, such as bank headquarters. Malware used in the attacks According to authorities, crooks installed malware on the ATMs which disconnected the machine from the bank's network and allowed the croo... ...