Patent 7428873 was granted and assigned to Oberthur Cash Protection on September, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A security apparatus is provided for use in an automatic teller machine. The security apparatus (100) has a coupling arrangement (110, 150) for engaging the unit with a cash cassette used to hold money within an automatic teller machine and a spoiling system (130, 132) for delivering a spoiling agent for spoiling the contents of the cassette in response to a control signal issued by a controller.