Fake PIN pad units at Hancock Fabrics
Mar. 17th, 2010 08:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneThe Register reports that earlier this month, the Hancock Fabrics chain store published an open letter to its customers, informing them that in some of their stores the payment card terminals were replaced with "visually identical, but fraudulent PIN pad units", making it possible for criminals behind this scheme to steal payment card data such as the name on the card, its number and expiration date and PIN number when entered.
http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=9033
I had not heard of this, and I know lots of people do crafty sort of things and probably go there on a regular basis.
Last week my debit card was compromised. I was compiling tax information and noticed a $94 charge with a vendor that I did not recognize. I queried the vendor info and it turned out to be a gas station in North Carolina. So now my debit card is gone, hopefully I'll have a new one before I go to Vegas next week for GTS.
The sad thing? My bank has branches in Vegas, I could have had my new card sent there. They'll only send the new card to my address on file, or to a branch. They only have one branch in Phoenix, way out in Tolleson.
http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=9033
I had not heard of this, and I know lots of people do crafty sort of things and probably go there on a regular basis.
Last week my debit card was compromised. I was compiling tax information and noticed a $94 charge with a vendor that I did not recognize. I queried the vendor info and it turned out to be a gas station in North Carolina. So now my debit card is gone, hopefully I'll have a new one before I go to Vegas next week for GTS.
The sad thing? My bank has branches in Vegas, I could have had my new card sent there. They'll only send the new card to my address on file, or to a branch. They only have one branch in Phoenix, way out in Tolleson.
