Crooks plant fake payment card terminals at multiple stores Crooks planted bogus payment card processing terminals at multiple locations operated by the Hancock Fabrics chain store that allowed for the theft of sensitive financial data from customers, the company warned. The personal identification number pads were stolen in August and September and "replaced with visually identical, …
People like you make me laugh. The reason for so much time is because the amour of victims. I dont know were you live but Paedophiles here do get long sentences . Back to my original point. Show were some has killed or raped some more than 2 people who would be facing less time then life in prison with out a plea deal . Now if he just scammed on or two people I would say that 42 - 57 be extreme , but he scammed more than just two people .
No, people like YOU make ME laugh. Is it more important that powerful financial organizations got defrauded - for which they have insurance - than someone got raped? REALLY?
So, you're saying that you'd prefer your significant other/wife/daughter raped rather than their credit card get ripped off? If you say so.
PS: can we get a moron symbol?
Now THAT'S more like it. Bung these bastards in the hole and throw away the bloody key. They're of no use to society whatsoever.
And murderers and paedophiles do get life sentences. As for rapists - well, that's an offence that's pretty hard to prove, isn't it? If it *is* proven, then in most cases the rapist will do a long stretch.
Ah, and there is the inconvenient truth...
Paedophiles and rapists and the like don't threaten the profit margins of large powerful corporations, so whilst it's important the state makes best endeavours to appear to care, it really isn't *that* concerned -where morality is concerned they leave it to us, the knuckle dragging masses. Where there's money involved, however...
Anyway, `Paedophile` is a very vague term. Someone who likes/has a prediliction for young people. Bearing in mind the legal age of consent is completely arbitrary and varies wildly from one country/culture to the next.... Are we talking about someone who looks at pictures of naked teens (say 14-17) posing on the internet (and does not pay for it) or someone who actually physically rapes babies and or young children (or even older children)? Or someone who has sex with a person of the opposite sex with their consent? Or does it make no difference to you?
Black and white thinking...tsk tsk...
It would have been nice if Hancock said which stores were found to have skimmers.
I would also like to know why we only hear about it now, if it happened last August/September. Did they only just find out, or did their lawyers take this long to tell management they had to disclose it? If they have known about it for some time and did not disclose it then there are some serious liability claims.
Old news... It made the papers in the SF Bay Area back in September ... At least one of the compromised stores was the Hancock Fabric store in Napa, CA. I believe there were others in parts of the Bay Area, and some in, I believe, Wisconsin.
Lock 'em up and throw away the key...
deterrent sentences,lol, to the extreme . What they need to do is advertise this widely and also UK bring in these sentences over here;
""...Last month, three Bulgarian men were charged with defrauding banks of more than $137,000 in a scheme that attached devices to numerous automatic teller machines in Massachusetts. If they are convicted, maximum prison sentences range from 42 years to 57 years...."
2 less crims on streets,ever.
A PIN pad is the keyboard unit found in an ATM, it's a self-contained computer with a huge number of safeguards that prevent exactly this sort of thing.
What Hancock Fabric is talking about is just a credit card reader--a completely different thing. Calling these things terminals is really misleading. They have few if any safeguards and are absolutely NOT PIN pads.
A PINpad is any pad that you type a PIN into. The real ones are "highly" secure, the keyboard being itself part of a tamper proof boxes that encrypts the PIN before it can leave the box (it this is needed). The problem is the security requirements for the fake PINpads are somewhat lower than those for the real ones.
Did they manage to remove and replace the number pad with nobody watching? Isn't there usually a CCTV camera pointing at ATMs?
As for the cost of locking them up.. maybe the answer isn't longer sentences but different ones. I'd suggest neutering as a good deterrent. Followed by a lobotomy. Then maybe chopping both hands off. Then feeding to hungry pigs. This should be the standard penalty for most crimes that get media attention.
so presumably it is not the "Chip and PIN" used in the UK, but are we safer?
Apparently UK or international bank rules and standards require that a chip card has a magnetic stripe on it as well, which is easier to steal data from, including from compromised reading devices, even chip devices. I don't know if you're "allowed" to remove the data on the magnetic strip yourself. A wire brush or metal wire scouring pad perhaps, but probably not putting it in the microwave.
Chip and PIN is not yet available worldwide so the magnetic strip is still required. You could erase it with an AC electromagnet (such as the old tape recorder degaussers). The trouble is you probably wouldn't be able to use the cash machines in the US.
The magnetic tape strip contains all the data the crook needs except for your PIN but there are several scams going on to read the strip and then watch you type in your PIN to a chip & PIN reader. I saw a TV programme where a waiter in the UK was wearing a matchbox-sized card reader on her belt. She pretended to clean the chip of a card but was swiping it through the reader. Then she watched the punter enter his PIN into the chip & PIN terminal. Now she had the necessary data to send abroad so that a card can be made and used in cash machines there.
The other common scam is to attached a false panel containing a strip reader to the front of UK cash machines. Then by using a camera or just looking over your shoulder, the necessary data can be gathered.
The strip doesn't contain the PIN, that's kept at the bank but I was surprised to find that the PIN is stored on the chip.
Huh. In my experience it would be more like
1.Walk into bank.
2. Try and find a pen still attached to its chain
3. Try and find a working pen still attached to its chain
4. Fill in withdrawal form without the pen nib tearing the form in two
5. Join interminably long queue
6. Realise you are behind the man from the penny arcade who's cashing in his yearly takings
7. Give up and risk being hacked. It's less hassle.
Rent white van
Walk into store holding clipboard
Tell mimimum wage counter clerk you are here to 'upgrade' the card readers
When manager objects, tell them 'there was a memo about it months ago'
Replace legitimate units with doctored ones
Leave with more units to gimik
Repeat
Simples
(You could even post the things in and get them to do it to themselves. Darn fleshy bio-units; always the weakest link...)
So, Chip & PIN, functionally useless, as predicted. What a shock. Let's hope this kicks the banks in the direction of implementing proper security. Or better, our politicians/courts into forcing the assumption that it's the banks problem until they can _prove_ the customer was knowingly fraudulent.
Mine's the one with a chequebook in the pocket (hack that with electronics, or replicate my spiders-crawl pawprint as easily as lifting a 4 digit number, and you'll win a big prize...)
"ATM's read the mag card before the chip and if the mag card is empty, the machine wont accept the card!!"
If correct, that's moronic. But given many chip card readers don't -touch- the magnetic strip, or most of it anyway, I'm sceptical. I think that goes for human bank teller equipment too.
Furthermore, since major UK upermarkets now let you draw cash at the checkout, you could use a magnetically defaced card for cash that way.
Both theories could be tested on a card that is about to expire and that you have a replacement for, so that you aren't wiped out - at least for your ATM: embarrassing in a shop. I suspect the microwave may fry the chip and leave the magnetic strip working, but physically destroying the strip (scrape it off and then draw one on with permanent-marker pen) seems less risky - although I am rather "good" an!t destroying electronic devices by casual handling.
And you are surprised he got that much time. I never said that I prefer a loved one get raped and I never know were you get that impression . My point was the sheer number of victims and then you complain that he gets . Do9 you think Madoff should not of gotten the time he did .
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