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Cyber Risks · Krebs on Security

Would You Have Spotted This Skimmer?

Summary: Police in Lower Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania are searching for two men who spent several months installing overlay card and PIN skimmers at checkout lanes inside Aldi supermarkets in the region, with multiple victims reporting their checking accounts were cleaned out after paying at compromised lanes. The overlay devices sit on top of the customer-facing terminal and are placed in about half a second, and while Aldi terminals in the U.S. can accept chip cards, the company has not enabled chip payments, so the skimmers capture data from the magnetic stripe when customers swipe.

Key Takeaway: Armed with a PIN and debit card data, thieves can clone the card and drain a checking account at an ATM, leaving the customer to deal with bounced checks while the bank sorts it out. The skimmer went on in roughly half a second in front of a cashier, which is the window your front-line staff and terminal controls are actually working with.

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