Barnes & Noble Warns Of Credit Card Breach

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Bought any books at Barnes & Nobel lately? If you have shopped at any one of the sixty three locations listed below, you'll want to check your account as soon as possible.
 
Something's fishy... 63 compromised pinpads in 9 different states? Is this an inside job? There's no way this is a coincidence.
 
az_max said:
Something's fishy... 63 compromised pinpads in 9 different states? Is this an inside job? There's no way this is a coincidence.
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You can afford to travel when you have a constant stream of credit cards at your disposal. Especially when it takes months or years for these boneheaded corporations to catch on.
 
niconx said:
You can afford to travel when you have a constant stream of credit cards at your disposal. Especially when it takes months or years for these boneheaded corporations to catch on.
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But youd have to have access to so many pin pads.... no normal individual is going to repeat that at least 63 times and not get caught... inside job
 
niconx said:
You can afford to travel when you have a constant stream of credit cards at your disposal. Especially when it takes months or years for these boneheaded corporations to catch on.
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And considering most of these boneheaded corporations are not held accountable or liable for these breaches it makes it a thief's dream come true.
 
az_max said:
Something's fishy... 63 compromised pinpads in 9 different states? Is this an inside job? There's no way this is a coincidence.
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Or B&N has some messed up procedures that leaves a lot of access during some phase of installation or maintenance. Unless you count things like common cleaning service contracting companies or something as an inside job.
 
More likely the PIN pads were tampered with before they were ever installed.

B&N found some, how many others are lurking all over the country in many different stores. best to look back at the chinese plant that made the damn things and work your way down the chain of distribution.
 
"The criminals planted bugs in the tampered PIN pad devices, allowing for the capture of credit card and PIN numbers"

I'm almost thinking this had to have been done at the PIN pad manufacture plant or while they were stored. No way you go to multiple stores in multiple states... then stuff an 'in use' pad under your coat, hack it (so well that it's hard to detect) or swap it with a pre-hacked one, then put it back w/o getting caught.

One thing that might work is if the criminals just left pre-hacked pad laying around, and the store workers think it's just a spare and plugs it in.
 
I wonder if the bugs transmit wirelessly and someone has to pick up the stored #'s, or if it's logging into wifi networks and sending off to a server, or using the same wired network as the pad? Also have the criminals been very patient or are the stolen #'s in active use?
 
They are the same WIRELESS pin pads that the TJX corp was hit with a hack over YEARS AGO. Making these idiots WILLFULLY NEGLIGENT in their security breach. :eek::mad:

You can sit in the parking lot and monitor all the transactions if you can hack the wireless.... likely WEP... this has all happened before. :rolleyes: :cool:
 
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