I'm surprised this is new to HN. The article is from 2010 and ATM skimmers have been around for 15+ years. They've become significantly more sophisticated over time. Back when I was involved with this stuff 9 years ago most people were making skimmers you had to hook up with a USB cable to get the data. Now people are using cell phone hardware to transmit the data automatically.
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I'm surprised this is new to HN. The article is from 2010 and ATM skimmers have been around for 15+ years. They've become significantly more sophisticated over time. Back when I was involved with this stuff 9 years ago most people were making skimmers you had to hook up with a USB cable to get the data. Now people are using cell phone hardware to transmit the data automatically.