How to Avoid Card Skimmers at the Pump

Summary: San Antonio police found more than 100 card-skimming devices inside area fuel pumps in 2018, already exceeding the total found in the area in 2017. Lt. Marcus Booth of the SAPD financial crimes unit said the incidents occurred almost entirely at stations with older pumps using vertical card readers, flat membrane keypads, and master keys that open all pumps of a given model, while newer pumps with raised metallic "full travel" keypads, horizontal card slots, and per-pump custom locks have produced zero skimming cases.
Bottom line: Visa pushed the liability shift deadline for chip-ready fuel pumps to October 1, 2020, so most stations still run the legacy hardware thieves target - and a skimmer that captures a debit PIN lets thieves clone the card and empty a checking account at an ATM.

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Topics: Data Breaches
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