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 ...

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 ...

Calling it a “sophisticated criminal effort,” Barnes & Noble Inc. on Wednesday reported tampering occurred on PIN pads at 63 of its stores in nine states. The company on Sept. 14 disconnected every ...

Walmart is making a major change to its self-checkout machines. The retailer has installed bright yellow rims around the PIN pads on the machines after a surge of card skimming. Reddit user matteo360 ...

Some consumers in New England who shop for food at Stop & Shop Supermarkets and for clothing at T.J. Maxx have recently had firsthand experience with the potential perils of using credit and debit ...

A fake pin pad used as a card-skimming device meant to steal credit card information was discovered in the self-checkout line of an Atlanta-area Kroger grocery store, police say. The fraud was ...

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., ...

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 ...

Retailers have instituted enhanced cleaning procedures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, with an aim to keep frequently touched surfaces as clean as possible. Certainly one of the most commonly ...