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March 15th, 2010

Via The Register, some news about enterprising thieves:

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, but fraudulent PIN pad units,” Hancock Fabrics warned in a letter to customers. “As a result, certain account information and PIN numbers used at these locations may have been unlawfully acquired by third parties.”

So somebody out there was devious enough to replace the credit card gizmos with look-likes that nobody even noticed for over a month. Either those are some dumb employees or really smart crooks . . .

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