Sunday, May 07, 2006

Shell UK suspends chip-and-pin

BBC News is reporting that Shell has halted the use of chip-and-pin EFTPOS terminals in 60% of its 1,000 UK petrol stations following a £1m fraud. The news article implies that fraudsters may have tampered with Shell's EFTPOS card readers in some way, although they are supposedly tamper resistant devices.
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