An anonymous reader quotes Bleeping Computer:
German police mocked a group of bungling crooks that tried to rob an ATM, but instead of malware they chose explosives, which they unwittingly placed near a device that issued bank statements, and not the actual money-dispensing ATM… The crooks placed small explosive charges next to a machine they thought to be an ATM, in the hopes of breaking its outer casing and getting access to the money vault inside… After being called in to investigate the loud blast that woke up the bank’s neighbors German police discovered a partially destroyed bank statement printing machine… No money was stolen in the failed robbery, police reported.
In a statement on the Berlin police department’s official web site, they described the ATM thieves as “not very clever.”

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