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Number of Skimmers Found this Month Surpasses 2015 Total
Sedona AZ (August 12, 2016) – Coming to gas pumps near you soon?
Criminals are upping the stakes when it comes to stealing your credit and debit card information at gas pumps. The state has found more skimmers so far this month than it found in all of last year.
Between August 1 and August 12, 2016, there were twelve skimmers found while last year’s total was eleven. Not only are more...
Thieves Swipe Debit Card Data
by Ann Zimmerman and Miguel Bustillo Friday, May 13, 2011 to the Wall Street Journal
An unknown number of shoppers at Michaels stores in 20 states whose bank accounts were looted after they had used their bank debit cards at the retailer. Thieves tampered with the retailer’s debit-card processing equipment at about 80 stores from Massachusetts to Washington, according to the chain’s...