Week 7

Decided this week to post something that’s a bit closer to home. Upscale Minnesota grocery chain Lunds & Byerlys discovered that four of their stores were impacted with card skimmers. Card skimmers are nothing new- they’ve been around since I was in high school. What had me interested in this article was the fact that only those who swiped their cards were affected. Chip readers weren’t. It had me thinking about how the large majority of transactions have shifted to usage of the chip and what that means for the skimming scene.

https://www.kare11.com/article/news/crime/credit-card-skimmers-found-at-4-lunds-and-byerlys-stores-across-metro/89-e5711bbb-c367-424e-a44c-37df109506f1