Hacking an ATM

There is no end to people’s ingenuity when there is a fast buck to be made. In this story from Australia a pizza shop employee cum computer wizz was able to make huge withdrawals of cash based on information he found on the internet and in an ATM manual. His plan however had a major flaw - to make the withdrawals he used his own card and those of his mother, girlfriend and two friends.

Although Prosecutors had called for a two year jail term the judge decided a conviction should not be entered after Sommer agreed to pay the money back and applied to become an avionics technician in the Australian Defence Force.

You can read the whole story at
http://www.frasercoastchronicle.com.au/story/2009/10/23/free-money-too-good-to-be-true-no-conviction-recor/