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Re:Hackers Are Emptying ATMs with a Single Drilled Hole and ... by kefka on Monday April 03, 2017 @04:59PM (#14027092)
Maybe some of them are. Ive also found some that are crap.

I have a tendency to pull on things like ATM covers, credit card slots, and the like. And that's because we have lots of skimmers that are found at local gas stations and places around here (big college presence).

So far, I've found an opened gasoline pump door. I called attendant and went to a different pump (attendands didnt have keys for that....) .

Ive also found an ATM that was partially locked and came opened when I gave it a tug. I called our bank's security after that one.

I also found a skimmer on a gas pump as well. It had a fishy look to it and gave it a tug. Pop. Was just a simple card reader and cam module in 1. I harvested the parts and put the microsd card through a good format.

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Re:Hackers Are Emptying ATMs with a Single Drilled Hole and ... by christofosho on Monday April 03, 2017 @05:07PM (#14027148)
This worries me, especially given some locations take your card and swipe it for you. I'm going to be checking these types of things more closely from now on... It is kind of sad, how difficult it is to educate the public on scams such as these.
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Re:Hackers Are Emptying ATMs with a Single Drilled Hole and ... by lordvon on Monday April 03, 2017 @05:05PM (#14027136)
Where do you live?
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Re:Hackers Are Emptying ATMs with a Single Drilled Hole and ... by stevenwoo on Monday April 03, 2017 @06:01PM (#14027615)
Location surprisingly has less to do with the possiblity of it happening than one might think. There was a huge scam in Silicon Valley with card readers stuck inside of gas pumps so they were undetectable, that started five years ago. http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/02/21/six-arrested-for...
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Re:Hackers Are Emptying ATMs with a Single Drilled Hole and ... by kefka on Monday April 03, 2017 @05:30PM (#14027354)
Bloomington, IN.
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Re:Hackers Are Emptying ATMs with a Single Drilled Hole and ... by jlgaddis on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @01:31AM (#14029742)
Heh, after your second paragraph I thought, "that sounds like here", then got down to this comment and realized it is (also in Bloomington).
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Re:Hackers Are Emptying ATMs with a Single Drilled Hole and ... by kefka on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @12:32PM (#14034503)
Maybe we should do a HN meetup, Bloomington IN style :)

Or you can come on over to our hackerspace, Bloominglabs. We have open houses every Wednesday from 7-10P, no matter what day that falls on :)

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Re:Hackers Are Emptying ATMs with a Single Drilled Hole and ... by jlgaddis on Thursday April 06, 2017 @04:51PM (#14054466)
I'm on the -announce list so I get the occasional e-mail but, TBH, there really isn't much that interests me. I haven't been to the place on Rogers but I did visit the previous place (off Curry Pike) several times (I started a class there but "dropped out" after a few weeks due to work/travel).

Perhaps I'll drop by the new place some time, though.

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