Thread: watch out if you have a credit card

A couple of days ago 600 shell garages in the UK had to withdraw credit card transactions at their petrol stations. It appears a fraud had been created where customers credit cards used at their pumps were being loaded with fraudulent amounts by a crooked fraud gang.

So chip and pin is not secure, you might have your card in your possession but it is still under attack.

see this comment by a uk forum member.

On doing a little more research here it would suggest that the PIN entry unit had been tampered with but that these were supposed to be tamper resistant. The article then goes on to say that 'it only applies to Shell'....which I find a tad unrealistic since this implies that shell have gobne out and obtained/designed/developed their own special PIN entry unit.

I'd like to think that this were true but common sense suggests that they will have obtained a unit designed/built by someone else and most likely the same unit will have been provided by the developers to other retailers/retail chains. And so anyone using these PIn entry units would be as susceptible to tampering as the Shell units.

I think that they are being a little bit economical with the truth hear since if it is that bad then it puts a huge dent in the so-called 'security' of CHIP n PIN and undermines everything that they were saying re improved security etc etc.
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