There’s no good data on how much money is stolen this way—banks are loath to make details of this sort of thing public—but the US Secret Service began warning financial institutions about jackpotting in 2018. And that’s eight years after security researcher Barnaby Jack demonstrated jackpotting at the DEF CON hacker conference in 2010. His attacks didn’t require anyone to physically tamper with the ATM; he found software vulnerabilities that he could remotely exploit to accomplish the same result.
