Some WaMu ATM customers unable to access money

Some Washington Mutual customers were unable to access their money through WaMu ATMs for about 90 minutes early Friday morning.

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Thieves leave stolen ATM after it falls off truck

Ripping an ATM from its concrete base isn't easy. Losing it seems even harder. Thieves at an Alabama bank managed to do both. Phenix City Police Chief Ray Smith said the thieves used a stolen backhoe, a pickup truck and a flatbed trailer to pull off the job at a Wachovia branch in the eastern Alabama city early Monday.

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Forklift allegedly used to steal ATM in Texas

Talk about picking up some extra cash in time for the holidays.

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Man's idea to break Kan. ATM less than smashing

Police in Leavenworth, Kan., say a thief who tried to bust an ATM open like a giant piggy bank is lucky to be in one piece himself.

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Thieves are grabbing more ATMs

Sometime after midnight on June 13 — Friday the 13th — someone rammed a stolen pickup truck through the front of Sayeed Ali’s gasoline station in Houston.

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Citibank ATM breach reveals PIN security problems

Hackers broke into Citibank's network of ATMs inside 7-Eleven stores and stole customers' PIN codes, according to recent court filings that revealed a disturbing security hole in the most sensitive part of a banking record.

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ATM Gives Out Too Much Money

An ATM at a northwest Louisiana truck stop gave out $20 bills instead of $5s, but authorities say they know who took the extra $7,000 the machine spit out and plan to track them down.

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Thieves Using Forklifts to Steal ATMs

Leave the gun. Bank robbers have found an easier way to make off with other people's money: Around the country, thieves have hot-wired forklifts at construction sites, chugged up to banks and scooped up their ATMs, with all the cash inside.

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Crooks Launch Cash-And-Carry ATM Spree

If money could buy happiness, these thieves would be overjoyed. They stole the ATM.

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AUSTIN — A man who spent two months in a coma at an Austin hospital awoke to discover he was a crime victim. Austin police today announced they are seeking a woman seen on ATM bank surveillance video using his debit card.

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The Federal Reserve will stop banks from charging many overdraft fees as a wave of reform sweeps Washington.

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"The final overdraft rules represent an important step forward in consumer protection," the Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said. "Both new and existing account holders will be able to make informed decisions about whether to sign up for an overdraft service."

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In the 1970s, the ATM revolutionized banking. Now, the PTM - personal teller machine - could be the next step in bringing banking into the 21st century, says the Utah-based company that created it.

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Meridian police are looking for a man who spent a half hour staking out an ATM and attacking it with a crowbar.

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LONG BEACH - Long Beach police say the Chase ATM on Park Avenue was doctored, possibly allowing thieves to steal account numbers and PIN numbers.

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Customers will be asked to enter their Huckleberry Finn in order to withdraw sausage and mash after an ATM operator introduced Cockney rhyming slang to a number of its cash machines.

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A mouse found inside an automatic teller machine — along with a nest it had built with chewed-up $20 bills — gave an Oregon gas station employee the surprise of her life.

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Cash machines offer an ever-growing menu of services beyond merely dispensing money. For tampering criminals, this now includes a squirt of pepper spray in the face .

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A German firm has responded to growing demand for gold by creating an automatic teller machine (ATM) that dispenses the precious metal. Unveiling its new product at the main railway station in Frankfurt, the asset management company recommended that people hold up to 15 per cent …

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Today I was shopping at the downtown Seattle REI. I was about to buy a Thule hitch mount bike rack. They were out of the piece that locks the bike rack into the hitch. So I was in the customer service line to special order one.

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TODAY Financial editor Jean Chatzky is receiving more e-mail than ever from readers concerned about the economy. She takes time to answer questions about saving for college, property taxes and credit scores.

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As one door is closed to them, unethical banks will surely find another. That's what I shared with my senators and representatives when writing to them today. I've been using banking cards for a very long time. And never has a bankcard allowed me to get money I did not have.

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Not one of my usual seeds, but this is one of those things, that for whatever reason, frightens me. My public service message to you!

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Indianapolis - Metro Police are searching for an armed man who used a toddler as bait to steal cash. Investigators say he robbed a woman Wednesday night at an ATM near Girls School and Rockville Road on the west side.

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A ring of international computer hackers stole $9 million by simultaneously hitting 130 ATMs in 49 cities around the world. The thieves pulled off the crime in the space of a half hour, using counterfeit cards.

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The Federal Reserve is considering a change to banking regulations that would change the way banks process debit card payments.

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An international crime syndicate is believed to be behind an ATM scam in Melbourne's CBD that may have netted criminals more than $500,000, police say.

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Diebold has released a security fix for its Opteva automated teller machines after cyber criminals apparently broke into the systems at one or more businesses in Russia and installed malicious software.

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What sounds like a very workable plan to foil forced ATM robberies turns out to be untrue

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An Arlington ATM was spewing out money for anyone who knew the trick. You could double your money: $50 became $100, $100 turned into $200, $250 into $500, the machine's daily withdrawal limit.

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RBS WorldPay announced on December 23 that they'd been hacked, and personal information on approximately 1.5 million payroll-card and gift-card customers had been stolen.

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Streeeeeeeetch

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"Smash and Grab" Has Moved to ATMs, Spurring Anti-Ramming Measures

Both the United States, Britain and Australia have been hit by a new variety of smash and grab crimes, one in which criminals ram a stolen van into the front door of a convenience store in order to grab the ATM inside.

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PORT ANGELES, Wash. - Bank surveillance video showed that a freak accident killed a 65-year-old motorist using a bank's ATM drive-through lane. The woman died when her head was caught between her van's door and a metal post next to the ATM.

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