Posted on 04/04/2014 4:42:14 PM PDT by perfect stranger
SOUTH PORTLAND (WGME) -- It's something we've all imagined at one time or another, going to an ATM and having the machine mistakenly spit out thousands of dollars. Never happens, right? Guess what? It did happen at a bank ATM in South Portland early Thursday morning.
This all started at one in the morning, when officers were called to a TD Bank branch on Maine Mall road. A transient was inside the bank sleeping beside the ATM. Officers went inside and moved him along. But, he came back.
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I would say someone scared for there job, put 100 dollars of their own money in to balance the receipts.
As long as the receipts balance no harm no foul.
Thanks again for the great explanation. It makes sense that ATMs would only be on a private network, but your comment got me to thinking about the number of non-ATM systems that might use XP or XPEmbedded, that are on the internet. Even some as critical as POS terminals, credit-card swipe terminals, etc. A reputable outfit like Diebold would notify them and make it easy to upgrade but I won’t be surprised if there are others who don’t, and allow those systems to become more vulnerable.
Probably a good opportunity for Linux or an embedded OS like QNX to make some inroads, but the changeover cost would be much greater than just moving from XP to Win 7 or 8.
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