Hacker Cracks ATM with Google's Help
A hacker REPROGRAMMED a gas-station ATM in Virginia Beach, Virginia, to spit out $20 bills instead of $5 bills. He used a debit card along with knowledge he reportedly found through a Google search (a feat replicated later by a security researcher). The cracker found master passwords to the Tranax Mini-Bank ATM -- and instructions -- in a PDF version of a 102-page manual posted on the Web site of a Tranax reseller. For nine days after the ATM was re-programmed, everyone got 400% more cash than requested (it took the nine days for an ATM user to tell someone she got more money). Here comes the VIDEO!
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Actually, from the commentary on Slashdot, the manual lists the "default" master password, and suggests that it be changed "immediately"
Even though it took a week to catch this, it will now only take the bank approximately 6 nanoseconds to "reverse engineer" who got how much $$ from their accounts, and debit the statements accordingly...
I thought ATM's only gave you $20 dollar bills? I have never seen one give me a five dollar bill?
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