Data theft at the cash
With great effort and criminal energy unknown perpetrators have manipulated the world in wholesale credit card reader and collected the resulting data. In Britain alone amounts of damage, according to The Wall Street Journal at least 37 million "euros. vgp-ac19v10
Are affected, according to Wall Street Journal wholesale markets in the UK, Ireland, Belgium, Holland and Denmark, including, for example, the chains Wal-Mart and Tesco. Incidents in Germany so far nothing is known. The captured data is sent directly from the Lesengeräten to Pakistan. vgp-ac19v37
The procedure of the alleged criminals coming from Asia is sophisticated: In the credit card reader was installed several chips that allow reading and forwarding of wireless credit card information via mobile phone. The manipulation must be done before the sale to the supermarket chains, were prepared the devices in China.
not to attract attention, were also integrated mechanisms, the recordings only in certain intervals or only for certain types of cards. The Sniffer function was deactivated completely. To further camouflage the thieves used the data for two months after the read. lenovo thinkpad x40 battery
That the whole thing with so perfidious manipulation yet noticed, is due more to a coincidence. The radio produced a security guard at a wholesale market near a card reader noise. Alerted the police discovered the additional electronics in the reader and also a significant difference in weight of 100 grams compared with unmanipulated version. Using the modified device can be discovered.
