Police have a huge online bank robbery attempt from taking place over the Internet. Thieves to steal $534 million from a London branch of Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui bank. They used special hacking software that could 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 information. One member of the gang supposedly worked at Sumitomo and 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 . He said the bank’s IT security staff told British police last October that they they were under attack. Detectives from Britain’s National Hi-Tech Crime Unit then started . They arrested a 32-year-old Israeli man yesterday. Police are him now in Tel Aviv and expect to make more . They have warned all banks to take extra care of their computer security.