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Canada: High-Tech Criminal Ring Clones Debit Cards
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 13:34:36 GMT
Via The Globe and Mail. [snip] Police say they have busted a savvy criminal ring that used wireless technology to clone the debit cards of 18,000 bank customers in the Montreal area. About $4-million was emptied from consumers' bank accounts before the scheme was stopped, said Captain Michel Forget of the Sûreté du Québec, the provincial police. Ten people were arrested as of yesterday afternoon, he said. The criminals mainly targeted convenience stores and gas stations. With the help of accomplices working for the stores, they rigged the stores' debit-card devices, according to police. When customers punched in their personal identification numbers, the information was transmitted, using Wi-Fi technology, to a nearby receiver. [snip] More: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060621.gtdebit21/BNStory/Technology/ - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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