How 2 security guards hacked ATM, stole millions without cracking code

Two bank security guards who allegedly stole from an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) were on Wednesday charged before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court.

Friday Audu, 43, of No. 1, Oyewole Compound, Iyana Ipaja and Haruna Anaja, 40, of No. 23, Irepodun Street, Oja Oba, Abule Egba, Lagos conspired to commit the crime on August 5.

The prosecutor, Insp. Olusegun Oke, told the court that the offences were committed at Access bank, located at 13 Joel Ogunaike Street, Ikeja.

Oke alleged that the defendants who were security guards of the bank stole N2.4 million from the ATM of the bank.

The staff member, who loaded money inside the machine, forgot to lock the door, and the guards were the able to get in, handpicked the cash

Oke also said Audu was the one that received the stolen items from Anaja.

The prosecutor said 11 ATM cards bearing different names were recovered in their possession.

The offences according to the prosecutor contravened sections 287, 328, 329 and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

The defendants, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges.

The Magistrate, Mrs D. S. Odukoya, granted the defendants bail in the sum of N500,000 each with two sureties in like sum.

Odukoya adjourned the case until Nov. 3, for trial.