Safeway Self-Checkout Skimmer Close Up
Summary: KrebsOnSecurity reported in December 2015 that security experts found skimming devices on credit and debit card terminals in self-checkout lanes at Safeway stores in Colorado and possibly other states. An image from a later incident at a Safeway in Germantown, Maryland shows an overlay skimmer fitted over Verifone terminals, with a PIN pad overlay to capture PINs and a mechanism to record magnetic stripe data when customers swipe.
Bottom line: The device attaches over the terminal in the blink of an eye, and the source notes these attacks will keep proliferating as long as retailers let customers swipe the stripe instead of dipping the chip.
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