Thieves Used Infrared to Pull Data from ATM ‘Insert Skimmers’A greater number of ATM skimming incidents now involve so-called "insert skimmers," wafer-thin fraud devices made to fit snugly and invisibly inside a cash machine’s card acceptance slot. New evidence suggests that at least some of these insert skimmers -- which record card data and store it on a tiny embedded flash drive are -- equipped with technology allowing it to transmit stolen card data wirelessly via infrared, the same technology built into a television remote control.
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Thieves Used Infrared to Pull Data from ATM ‘Insert Skimmers’
