Barnes & Noble Inc. said Wednesday that the tampering of devices used by customers to swipe credit and debit cards in 63 of its stores was a "sophisticated criminal effort" to steal information, and ...

Skimming scams are everywhere, but according to Krebs on Security, there’s another component to them that’s easy to prevent—scammers recording your PIN number. “Very often the most clever component of ...

The PIN pad-tampering attack Michaels Stores Inc. revealed earlier this month is far more widespread than it originally believed, affecting at least 90 payment terminals in stores in 20 states, the ...

Jeff Perrin tries to avoid germs at the grocery store. He slips on winter gloves, pull out his mobile-pay app and saddles up to the cash register. But then he has to slip those same gloves off so he ...

Arts and crafts aficionados, beware. If you purchased your scrap-booking materials from a Michael’s Arts & Crafts store with a debit card, you may want to check your bank statements. PIN pads across ...

Pin pads at 63 Barnes and Noble stores, including the company's stores in Walpole, Chestnut Hill and Hingham have been tampered with, the company announced.The company disconnected pin pads in its 700 ...

Shimming is the newest con designed to skim your credit card number, PIN and other info when you swipe your card through a reader like an Pin Pad machine. The shim is the latest attack being used by ...

While the investigation continues into how thieves managed to steal funds from consumers’ debit card accounts by tampering with PIN-pad terminals at 80 outlets of Michaels Stores Inc., ...