https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/5/18212902/huaxia-bank-qin-qisheng-atm-loophole-hack-china

A person working in a bank in china was able to with draw almost $1 million in cash from an ATM machine by finding a flaw/vulnerability in the ATM. There was a flaw that withdrawing around midnight would not produce a removal amount from the persons account. This would normally red flag it but the programmer inserted a script in the system to get around the red flag and was doing it for months before eventually being caught. This person was an internal threat to the system, as he was able to modify the system from the inside to allow him to carry out this attack.

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The bank should’ve taken action as soon as possible. If he’s been doing it for months, that shows that the bank is irresponsible if a worker is literally stealing money from the ATM located in the bank. They should have kept an eye on him from the first time he’s tried/attempted to take money that wasn’t his. This shows that machines such as ATM’s don’t need to be hacked through passwords, all they need is literal time. Something so simple as a bottle machine can be hacked, so a person who is proficient in computers can definitely reprogram an ATM machine to meet the hackers standards.

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