Man Used MP3 Player To Hack Cash Machines

Juha-Matti Laurio writes "A man in Manchester, England has been convicted of using an MP3 player to hack cash machines. The MP3 player was plugged into the back of free standing cash machines in bars. Tones being recorded from the phone line were decoded with special software to a readable format. Later this information was used to clone credit cards."

Comments

Um...

[Spazntwich]

So he performed a generic man in the middle attack, recording information transmitted by modem and decoding it?

Hasn't this been done a million times before? Wouldn't it be easily performed with any sort of sound recorder?

Re:Police found fake card.

[hey!]

TFA doesn't say that they went through his wallet. Only that they "They found a fake bank card in his possession..."

Whether it was proper or not depends on how they found the bank card, and what the rules in UK say about searches. Remember -- clever doesn't necessarily mean smart. It took a clever person to dream up the scam. But a smart person wouldn't travel around with incriminating evidence unless it is well hidden. For all we know he may have had a pile of loose credit cards on the passenger seat. That's the kind of blunder many clever people I know would be likely to commit.