14-year-old code crackers hack Winnipeg ATM

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http://www.torontosun.com/2014/06/08/two-14-year-old-code-crackers-hack-winnipeg-atm

By Doug Lunney
QMI Agency
June 8, 2014

WINNIPEG -- A couple of 14-year-old computer whizzes have the Bank of 
Montreal upgrading its security after the teens hacked an ATM machine.

Matthew Hewlett and Caleb Turon, both Grade 9 students, found an old ATM 
operators manual online that showed how to get into the machine's operator 
mode.

On Wednesday over their lunch hour, they went to the BMO's ATM at the 
Safeway on Grant Avenue to see if they could get into the system.

"We thought it would be fun to try it, but we were not expecting it to 
work," Hewlett said. "When it did, it asked for a password."

Hewlett and Turon were even more shocked when their first random guess at 
the six-digit password worked. They used a common default password. The 
boys then immediately went to the BMO Charleswood Centre branch on Grant 
Avenue to notify them.

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