Automated teller machine

An Istanbul-based tech company has manufactured a paper money disinfection module for ATMs to remove bacteria and viruses from paper money.

"The module we developed makes all ATMs hygienic and environmentally friendly in 15 minutes," Furkan Eruçan, the Co-Founder of Money Shower, told state-run Anadolu Agency.

The Hellenic Bank Association (HBA) urged customers to favor electronic transactions over visiting bank branches and to rely on card payments instead of cash, as a way to limit the transmission of the new coronavirus.

In its press release, the association said banks would continue their operations as usual and resupply ATMs with cash.

Unknown assailants blew up an ATM at dawn on Wednesday in the northern Athens suburb of Penteli but were unable to extract any money from the machine.
According to police, the perpetrators caused an explosion at 3.30 a.m. which damaged the cash machine and the facade of a real estate office on Panagouli Street.

Police have launched an investigation.

Police in Oraiokastro, on the outskirts of Thessaloniki in northern Greece, detained two people in the act of attempting to break open an ATM on Monday.

The would-be thieves had aimed to use an explosive device to gain access to the cash in the ATM, police said, without elaborating.

Police in Thessaloniki were seeking the perpetrators behind an explosion around 3.30 a.m. on Wednesday that destroyed an ATM in the northern port city's Efkarpia suburb.
According to police, the assailants planted the device on the ATM, which was outside an insurance firm, and blew open the machine before fleeing with an undetermined sum of cash.

Police were seeking the perpetrators behind an explosion shortly after 4 a.m. on Tuesday that destroyed an ATM in Melissia, northeastern Athens.

According to police, the assailants planted the device on the ATM, which was outside a supermarket, and blew open the machine before fleeing with an undetermined sum of cash.

The blast caused damage but no injuries.

Unknown assailants blew up a bank branch ATM early Monday morning in the area of Lykovrysi, northern Athens.
Police said the heist occurred at 3.25 a.m. on Sofoklis Venizelou Avenue.
The perpetrators used dynamite to blow up the cash machine and made off with an undisclosed amount of money.
It was the fourth time that the ATM in question had been targeted in recent years.

The manager of a local security company branch in the northern Greek city of Kavala and his two accomplices have been charged with grand larceny over the theft of 4.2 million euros from the security company's premises last January.

Unidentified robbers early on Saturday drove a stolen car through the glass facade of a branch of Piraeus Bank in the Athens suburb of Nea Halkidona shortly before 4 a.m. on Saturday before using a homemade explosive device to blow open the ATM on the premises.

Police on Monday were seeking the perpetrators behind a smash-and-grab in the Athens suburn of Aghios Dimitrios in the early hours of the morning, the latest in a string of such incidents.