Teen Charged for Attempting Cash Machine Reprogramming Exploit

The US public prosecutor has charged a 19-year old man with attempting to reprogram cash machines. The man planned to exploit configuration options on cash machines manufactured by Tranax, which allow note denomination settings to be altered after entering a specific key sequence from the keypad (Tranax 1700: Enter, Clear, Cancel, 1,2,3) and a (default) password. By changing the recorded denomination for the cassette holding

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