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Man Used MP3 Player To Hack Cash Machines

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the easy-money dept.

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."

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  1. Um... by Spazntwich · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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?