Fake card reader results in data theft

["Thomas Raef" <traef () ebasedsecurity com>]

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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.

 

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.

 

"They started pouring in," McCarty said.

 

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.

 

"It was a switched card reader at one of the aisles," McCarty said.

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.

 

"Specifically look for charges in the Southern California area, Pasadena, Huntington; that's where most of them seem to 
be," McCarty said.

 

 

Thomas J. Raef

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