SQUAMISH, Canada – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are blaming a ring of identity thieves for a series of thefts at a credit union and other financial institutions in which the thieves stole machines used to generate ATM cards, according to a story in the Pemberton Question, a local paper serving the community of Squamish. In the case of the Squamish Credit Union, the thieves are suspected of making off with both a machine used to generate ATM cards and another to print data onto passbooks. Police believe the thieves stole the passbook machine because they mistook it for a machine the credit union uses to encode members' personal identification numbers on ATM cards. Police said that financial institutions in surrounding communities have suffered similar thefts in the past week.

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