X-Ray Scans Expose an Ingenious Chip-and-Pin Card Hack

lotuseclat79 · Oct 19, 2015

X-Ray Scans Expose an Ingenious Chip-and-Pin Card Hack.

The chip-enabled credit card system long used in Europe, a watered down version of which is rolling out for the first time in America, is meant to create a double check against fraud. In a so-called “chip-and-PIN” system, a would-be thief has to both steal a victim’s chip-enabled card and be able to enter the victim’s PIN. But French forensics researchers have dissected a real-world case in which criminals outsmarted that system with a seamless chip-switching trick—and pulled off the feat with a slip of plastic that’s almost indistinguishable from a normal credit card.
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PDF Download: Chip-and-PIN Card Hack Analysis.

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lotuseclat79 · Oct 21, 2015

How a criminal ring defeated the secure chip-and-PIN credit cards.

Over $680,000 stolen via a clever man-in-the-middle attack.
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