'Hacking' into gas pumps for free gas?

At least two St. Louis gas station owners or managers say somebody is breaking into gas pumps, reprogramming interior keypads and instructing the machines to dispense fuel at no charge.

Kevin Tippit is manager of the Phillips 66 in St. Louis. Tippit says his boss lost between $6,000 and $10,000 worth of gas Friday before a regular customer tipped-off an employee.
"They (the thieves) have a key to the pump and then after they open up the pump they go in and they reprogram the pump, so they can have free gas. And then everybody behind them sees what they're doing, and they continue," says Tippit. "What it actually does is bypass our system," says Tippit. "It goes beyond the register and is drawing directly off the pumps."

While Tippit says he and his employees have keys to the gas pumps, they don't have codes to the interior keypads. He says the only people with those codes are employees of companies that service gas stations.

Wow, people are stooping down to criminal activity just to save money? Crazy. Article here.