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Tesco Bank limits online transactions after fraud hits thousands

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Interesting if it is card holder present fraud.

Last year it was reported that a man-in-the-middle attack had learnt how to fake the chip-n-pin auth response at the terminals. Wonder if it's an industrial automated version of this hack?

http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/10/how-a-criminal-ring-defeated-the-secure-chip-and-pin-credit-cards/

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