Credit Card Hacking

[JohnnyD]

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If your trying to tell me that you got phished at a mobile station I'm telling you that you are mistaken. No way. You don't swipe at mobile stations the card goes inside the machine for a swipe. The pump don't turn on until it's authorized via SATELLITE. Same with the cash register.

This fraud stuff is taken very seriously. Exxon/Mobil has people that work for it just doing this. The pci non-compliance brings huge fines and the possible loss of accepting credit cards.

I'm not saying you didn't get your number compromised but I'm saying it wasn't at a Mobil station.

The likely hood of being skimmed by any method in that article is pretty slim. I'd say most likely your card was one of thousands hacked online months or even years ago. TJX, Hannafords, etc all have had huge hacking problems.

Salty, there's a difference between phishing and the card scanners that get installed. Phishing is when you receive those emails where they pretend to be your bank or the IRS or something like that.

I don't think you are understanding what potentially happened. They aren't hacking the actual scanner of the gas pump. The scumbags are inserting their own equipment into the existing pump's card scanners. No hacking involved.

**Edit** Found a picture of a CC reader made for the iPhone that plugs into the headphone jack. With technology this small, it seems that it'd be pretty easy to hide a device that was piggybacked onto an existing scanner.