Some crooks in England figured out how to steal credit card numbers from credit cards that have embedded RFID (Radio Frequency ID) tags in them. The RFID tags can be read at a distance. The enterprising crooks stole the numbers, made up a batch of fake credit cards encoded with the legitimate credit card numbers (easily done), and then flew to India to withdraw cash from ATM machines that don't bother to read the RFID tag (ATMs in England won't give you cash unless the machine can get both the credit card number off the magnetic stripe AND can read the RFID tag). Apparently British police did not even know some credit cards now have the RFID tags.
Welcome to the global economy.