About 40 club members are believed to have been affected.īanktech did not respond to requests for comment by Thursday evening. The hackers encrypted those lines, which is usually the first step before skimming money.

It had been due to conclude next week.īanktech, which owns and operates ATMs in hotels, clubs and casinos, controlled the lines between the “digital wallets” of the club members participating in the trial and their personal bank accounts. The trial that was the subject of the cyberattack was a small, government-endorsed test of a cashless technology developed by the gaming manufacturer Aristocrat.Īristocrat terminated the trial after its digital partner Banktech informed the company about the data breach, a spokeswoman said. “We know organised crime is engaged in these kinds of data breaches and ransomware attacks, and we know that organised crime has a lot to lose should we be implementing cashless gaming in NSW to prevent their ability to money launder.” “This data breach is deeply suspicious and I think it would be important for the government to refer any information that they have to the NSW Crime Commission in the context of their investigation into organised crime and money laundering in NSW,” Greenwich said.

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