Hacker Steals Credit Card Info At Toys 'R' Us
Police in Sweden have uncovered a hack scheme at a Toys 'R' Us store in which a fake magnetic swiper was installed on a legitimate point-of-sale system. The customers swiped their cards, and the machine appeared not to work. In fact, it scanned their cards and recorded the data, then transmitted it via Bluetooth to a mobile device carried by the crook. Data on more than 500 cards were reportedly stolen.
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Some interesting forensics work should be able to pull off the paired BT device MAC address which will give the manufacturer. The manufacturer should be able to match it with a serial number and the serial number potentially with a registered user. If it's a mobile device then perhaps the carrier can get a GPS location. Crooks sure do get dumber as they get smarter...
Are you dumb? Its 99% likely they bought the computer and BT reader with a stolen credit card, or the devices themselves were stolen and neither were registered to the thief stealing the cc numbers. Even a dumb theif knows not to use your own stuff to commit a crime.
So this is news? Happens all the time and has been happening for years now. There's actually a word for it: 'skimming' or 'ATM skimming'.
Or do you consider the Bluetooth part to be newsworthy?
Wouldn't you need the devices to get the MAC addresses? Regardless if you didn't, you would still need to be physcially there to pull it off. Kinda makes it hard not to picked in a line up.
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