ATM hackers skim $3.3 million from 200 customers

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http://www.wiscnews.com/news/local/article_74a0527e-6b66-11e2-95a0-001a4bcf887a.html

By Tim Damos
Capital Newspapers
1/30/2013

BARABOO -- An ATM machine hacking scheme that affected 200 Bank of Prairie du 
Sac customers was part of a wider-ranging fraud that has “skimmed” at least 
$3.3 million from U.S. debit card users and drawn the attention of the Secret 
Service.

Sauk County District Attorney Kevin Calkins has filed felony identity theft 
charges against Mihai Vasile Bandura, a 39-year-old man who authorities believe 
is from Romania and may already have left the country, or is in the process of 
leaving.

A Sauk County judge has authorized a warrant for Bandura’s arrest.

In November, Bank of Prairie du Sac Senior Vice President Roxi Maier contacted 
the Sauk Prairie Police Department to report that numerous customers had 
noticed unauthorized withdrawals from their accounts at ATMs in Milwaukee, 
Racine and Chicago.

Police suspect the scam artists placed a “skimming device” on the bank’s ATM at 
the Sentry Food Store in Prairie du Sac and used it to collect customers’ card 
information.

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