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Cyber Risks · Krebs on Security

Having a Ball with ATM Skimmers

Summary: A customer at a Bank of America ATM in Sun Valley, Calif., found a silver plexiglass card skimmer on the card slot on February 8, 2009, but a motion-activated camera hidden in a matching housing went unnoticed until a maintenance worker found it more than a day later. Police recovered both devices, the scam ran about three hours, no customer or bank losses resulted, and the person who installed them remains at large.

Bottom line: The skimmer was the obvious device; the camera that captured PINs was painted to match the ATM and sat undiscovered for over a day, which is the part that turns stolen card data into cash withdrawn from accounts worldwide.

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Fraud & Scams
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