Re: Fake card reader results in data theft

["John LaCour" <johnlacour () gmail com>]

The same thing happened about a year ago at a couple of SF bay area
grocery stores.   In those
cases the card reader at the Starbucks inside the grocery store was
replaced.   A
friend of mine was one of the victims and told me that apparently the cards were
used in Southern Calif. about 2 days after she visited the Starbucks.

http://www.savemart.com/pdfs/customeralert.pdf

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20070420/ai_n19038686


On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 7:41 AM, Thomas Raef <traef () ebasedsecurity com> wrote:
> From www.attrition.org:
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> http://cbs5.com/local/supermarket.identity.theft.2.711956.html
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> An ATM and credit card reader in a checkout aisle at the Los Gatos Lunardi's
> supermarket was recently switched, resulting in more than two dozen reported
> cases of identity theft, a Los Gatos/Monte Sereno Police Department
> spokesman said Tuesday.
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> Police received the first reports from victims who said their credit or
> debit cards had been used fraudulently on Sunday night and additional victim
> reports continued on Monday and today, according to police spokesman Tam
> McCarty.
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> "They started pouring in," McCarty said.
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> Police believe the victims all had their card numbers stolen at the Los
> Gatos Lunardi's, 720 Blossom Hill Road, after officials from Lunardi's
> contacted them about a problem with one of their card readers.
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> "It was a switched card reader at one of the aisles," McCarty said.
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> Recent shoppers of the Los Gatos Lunardi's should check the status of their
> bank or credit card accounts for charges they did not make, according to
> police.
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> "Specifically look for charges in the Southern California area, Pasadena,
> Huntington; that's where most of them seem to be," McCarty said.
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