So, two people have sent me two links (YouTube) about this story. Apparently, a man came into a
store that had an ATM. He walked up to the ATM with an ATM card (supposedly nothing special about the card, but it wasn’t his), and typed in a magic security code. Supposedly, this code allowed him to reconfigure the ATM machine to believe that it was filled with 5$ bills instead of $20 bills. When you go to withdraw money, you get 4x the expected dollar amount. Of course, the criminal left the machine in that mode, which after 9 days of use, someone finally reported that the machine was giving out too much money to the clerk. Judging from the video, the ATM looks like it is a Tranax Mini Bank 1500 series. Matasano Chargen » ATM Backdoor… Why is no one talking about this?
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