ATM hacking

With a cyberdeck you can hack a city ATM. First the Breach Protocol puzzle, 30 seconds of it, then a minute and a half at the ATM while the download runs. 30 seconds into the download the police get the alarm. Hold out to the end and you get 8,000 to 16,000 €$ in cash.

#Who can

• A character from level 3. Before that the hack strip says “Hacking opens from level 3”. Levels are on the Character and name page.
• With a cyberdeck in your pockets. Every ripperdoc sells the “Cyberdeck”, in the “Netrunning” section, for 25,000 €$. It's never used up. Where the ripperdocs are: the Places on the map page.
• Not a new character. For the first 120 minutes of play hacking is closed.
• Not a police officer on duty.
• On foot, conscious and not cuffed.
• While the city has police: at least one officer on duty. Otherwise “No police on duty: not the time”.

107 ATMs can be hacked: every one in the city except the two by spawn points. You don't need a bank card for it.

#How to hack

#Breach Protocol

• The screen shows a 6 by 6 code matrix of the codes 1C, 55, 7A, BD, E9 and FF, a buffer of 6 codes and two sequences: “Bypass the security” of 2 codes and “Open the cash cassettes” of 3. You have 30 seconds for all of it.
• You pick the codes with the mouse, in turn. The first one comes from the top row, the next from the column the last one stands in, then from a row again, and so on: row, column, row.
• Each sequence must stand in the buffer whole, its codes in a row. The buffer has 6 places, and the two sequences have 5 codes together.
• The answer goes by itself as soon as both sequences are in the buffer, or once they can't be any more.
• “ACCESS GRANTED”: the download begins. “BREACH FAILED” or “TIME'S UP”: the next try in 5 minutes.
• Closing the breach window, pressing “Stop the breach” or walking away from the ATM means giving up: that's a failed breach too.

#The download

• The download takes a minute and a half, and all that time you have to stay within 6 m of the ATM. At the top of the screen there's an “ATM HACK” card: the time left, how far the ATM is and when the police learn of it.
• The download stops if you walk off more than 6 m, take any harm except hunger and thirst, pass out, get into a car, get cuffed, go away from the game or leave the city. Then it's “DOWNLOAD STOPPED”, and no money.
• While the download runs and for a minute after it, the ATM has no green zone: weapons can be drawn there.
• At the end, “THE CASH IS YOURS” and “TAKEN”: 8,000 to 16,000 €$ in cash.

#Police

• 30 seconds into the download every officer on duty gets the alarm: “ATM HACK ALARM”, “The ATM's security went off”, a route to the ATM and a call from “The ATM's security” in the 911 list.
• At that moment the hacker sees “The police got the alarm: finish and get away”.
• A minute of the download is left by then: that's the time the police have to get there.

#Waits

• One ATM is hacked by one person at a time: “Someone is hacking this ATM right now”.
• How long is left to wait shows on the hack strip, for example “This ATM was hacked lately: again in 6 h”.