Card and chip inserted in PNB ATM, found only two days later

NOIDA: A recording device, a cloning chip and an SD card were recovered from an ATM of the Punjab National Bank (PNB) in B block market of Sector 34 on Saturday. An unidentified person was booked in connection with the case on Monday.

Police said the incident took place on March 28. However, the snooping devices were only discovered two days later. According to the ATM’s entry/exit diary, cash was deposited in the booth on March 22 but from March 25, the machine failed to dispense cash.

A security guard told TOI that the ATM suffered a technical issue. When the cash replenishing team visited the ATM on March 30, the service engineer found the devices inserted in the machine. After scanning the CCTV footage, it was found that a person had inserted the devices on March 28. “The machine could not dispense cash but it seemed to be working. The miscreant failed to sense the same,” a security officer said.

Pratyush Kumar, an official from PNB’s Sector 51 branch, said that although they had filed the complaint on Saturday itself, police lodged an FIR only on Monday. “It is up to them to take action. We will provide them the CCTV footage if they ask for it,” he said.

Asked if the data of the customers could have been leaked between March 28 and 30, he said they have not received any such complaint so far.

Meanwhile, the SHO of Sector 24 police station, Pradeep Tripathi, said an FIR has been lodged against unknown persons under IPC Section 420 (cheating).