Financial institutions in North Carolina, including the $18 billion State Employees' Credit Union have been wrestling since roughly mid-December with a novel approach to card skimming.
Customarily card skimming has involved devices being attached to the outside of ATMs that capture the card numbers of machine users and cameras to record their personal identification numbers. The thieves then use this information to steal money from cardholder accounts.
But this most recent skimming attack relies not on devices attached to ATMs, but instead on devices placed on this inside of gasoline pumps at busy, high traffic, service stations in the Triangle part of the state.
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