Kids hack Canadian ATM during LUNCH HOUR

theregister.co.uk

5 pointsreitanqild2 comments

A note on the hacking part: "The 14 year old duo Caleb Turon and Matthew Hewlett broke into a Bank of Montreal ATM during school lunch by following an online manual for accessing the machine's administrator functions.

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Turon and Hewlett gained access to that data by guessing the administrator password on their first attempt, indicating the ATM had default settings enabled."

Still interesting.

according to nakedsecurity at http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/06/11/14-year-olds-find... :

"When the ATM asked for a password, they plugged in the first lame-o, six-character groaner of a bad password that popped into their heads."

I'm going to guess that six character bad password was "123456".

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