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Lloyds TSB admits chip and Pin flawed
From: Chris Walsh <cwalsh () cwalsh org>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 09:12:11 -0500
[ got this from a closed mailing list -- may have some relevance ] Title: Lloyds TSB admits chip and Pin flawed Author: Sean Poulter Source: Daily Mail Excerpt: A major bank has finally conceded that serious flaws in the new chip and PIN system has opened it up to fraud. Lloyds TSB admitted a surge in thefts by gangs who clone debit and credit cards then plunder accounts at ATMs overseas. The crooks not only steal the card details, but also the four digit Pin codes which have replaced signatures to authorise purchases. The cloned cards are then used to make repeated raids on accounts using foreign cash machines because these transactions take longer to show up as a rogue spending pattern in banks' security procedures. The Daily Mail has learned that the monitoring systems of some banks do not include cash withdrawals from foreign ATMs as they have assumed ATMs are secure. The industry has focused fraud detection on card purchases. Yesterday Lloyds, which has 15m personal account customers in the UK, admitted the problem and said it had moved to close gaps in its security system. A spokesman said: 'In recent weeks, we have identified an increase in fraud via overseas cash machines. For complete article see: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/saving-and-banking/article.html?in_article_id=408976&in_page_id=2&ito=1565 _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/errata/dataloss/
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