Then, just for fun, and, well, for the sake of accuracy, Hewlett changed the ATM’s greeting from “Welcome to the BMO ATM” to “Go away. Then I found a way to change the surcharge amount, so I changed the surcharge amount to one cent. Then I started printing off documentation like how much money is currently in the machine, how many withdrawals have happened that day, how much it's made off surcharges. We both went back to the ATM and I got into the operator mode again. Here’s how, as Hewlett described it to the Winnipeg Sun: Much to the boys’ white-hat credit, they then marched right over to a nearby bank branch to let them know. When the ATM asked for a password, they plugged in the first lame-o, six-character groaner of a bad password that popped into their heads. Much to their surprise, the dusty old manual’s instructions worked. They went to the Bank of Montreal’s (BMO’s) ATM at the Safeway on Grant Avenue in Winnipeg. So on Wednesday, over their lunch hour, they thought they’d give it a go. Caleb Turon and Matthew Hewlett for being late during their lunch hour due to assisting with security.Īccording to the Winnipeg Sun, the two ninth-graders came across an old ATM operators manual online that showed how to get into the machine’s operator mode. Two 14-year-old Canadian boys almost got into trouble last Wednesday, but somebody wrote them a nice note explaining that they were late getting back from lunch because they had hacked the bejeezus out of an ATM.
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