Denied: no bail for ATM hacker

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http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/crime-and-law/denied-no-bail-for-atm-hacker/2342608.aspx

BY NATASHA RUDRA
The Canberra Times
01 Nov, 2011

A Lyneham man who pleaded guilty to hacking into two ATMs to steal 
$10,400 was already on bail for stealing thousands more dollars from 
cash machines to feed a gambling addiction, a court has heard.

Luke Angus McLaren, 23, posed as a technician when he hacked into the 
machines at the Westfield Belconnen shopping mall last Friday, 
collecting $6400 from one machine and $4000 from another.

According to the statement of facts tendered in the ACT Magistrates 
Court, McLaren then went out and blew the money during a 30-hour 
gambling spree at Canberra Casino at the weekend, losing a total of 
$52,000.

When he ran out of money and had to leave the casino about 4am on 
Sunday, he tried to hack into another ATM to steal more cash but failed 
because the machine had been secured by the company which owned it.

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