A fraudster in Britain outwitted sophisticated banking security systems by using an ordinary
MP3 music player to bug cash machines and steal customers’ credit card
secrets. He would use MP3 portable music players to record data transmitted from
free-standing ATM cash machines. The data was then converted to
readable numbers using a separate computer programme.
The phone line running from the machine to an ordinary BT
white socket was unplugged and a two-way adaptor inserted. The MP3
player was then placed between the ATM machine’s output cable and the
phone socket.
The player would record the tones, which resemble the kind of sound emitted by a fax machine.
These were then interpreted using a modem line tap, or MLT,
acquired from Canada, or passed through a computer software program
bought illicitly in Ukraine.
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