Thieves use EeePC in Brazilian ATM scam

April 22nd, 2008 | Category: Gadgets, News

Man, that tiny EeePC can be used for just about anything: surfing the web, blogging, surreptitiously hiding inside an ATM machine and stealing your identity. You know, the usual stuff. Yeah, so three creative Brazilian thieves were recently caught stuffing a black Eee into an ATM, where it replaced the ordinary magical-money-making workings and instead stole unwitting customers’ card numbers and PINs. The thieves didn’t stop there, however — they purposefully damaged all the other nearby ATMs so

that theirs would be the only one in service. intelligent! Of course, that doesn’t explain why it was so easy to crack open the target ATM in the first place — we’d pretty much consider our cash flow problems solved whether we could pull that trick. Check out the Brazilian TV report after the break — any Portugese speakers care to translate?

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Original post by Nilay Patel

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