make sure to check the equipment you are putting it into. ATM skimmers are the tool of choice for modern day bank robbers, only these days, they get your hard earned money, not the banks.
READ WHY HERE: http://informationweek.com/news/security/attacks/232400063
Park City restaurant POS system is hacked, some 8,000 customers cards are compromised which leads to $1.26 Million in fraud. Now this ski town couple who have owned their restaurant since 1985 are in a battle with their processing company and US Bank for who owes what to Visa and MC for not following PCI guidelines.
Here is a reason your employees should not be handling credit cards. Readers, this has nothing to do with your credit cards being compromised. This is just another reason business owners should be cautious of employees handling credit/debit cards.
I don’t think that we can stress it enough. If your POS system is not set up to be PCI compliant the chance of a breach by an outside hacker increases dramatically. For instance, these Subway locations did not have proper security set up an over 80,000 customers cards were compromised.
Skimming made some of the biggest headlines this year, all of which could have been avoided with proper PCI compliance and not allowing the costumers card to leave their and. Here is one more story about an 18 year old boy caught for skimming cards in Arizona.
http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_central_southern_az/yuma/man-arrested-for-skimming-credit-cards
