ATM Hacking - Too easy?

[Josh]

Apparently a guy has reprogrammed an area ATM to think it had $5 bills as opposed to $20's and as such was giving out far more money than it should have. Take a look

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmW_4R81jVU

There is a news report of it.

Here is a blog for further discussion

http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/index.blog?entry_id=1560245

[f0dder]

Hmmm... either that's a fraud, or somebody is going to get his ass kicked for putting in such a backdoor...

[Gothi[c]]

Hmmm... either that's a fraud, or somebody is going to get his ass kicked for putting in such a backdoor...

They are supposed to CHANGE the default password.
But still,... allowing access through the standard keypad seems like a terribly bad idea to me. Why don't they have an admin keypad in a locked section of the machine?!