Sources: Suspicious Access Seen To Docomo Accounts
NHK has learned that someone used an IP address to repeatedly access illegally-opened accounts for mobile phone carrier NTT Docomo's cashless payment service last month.
The Docomo service allows people who register their bank account information to make purchases and transfer money.
Investigators suspect someone posed as multiple bank account holders and signed up for the service to illegally withdraw bank deposits. More than 230,000 dollars were confirmed to have been stolen.
Sources told NHK that someone accessed the illegal Docomo accounts from an IP address believed to be in Niigata Prefecture, after the accounts were opened in late August.
Sources say someone accessed these accounts up to 100 times a day to link them to bank accounts.
