Theft Ring Victimizes Stores and Customers with Compromised PIN Pads

It's the PIN pads that are disturbing. They make it clear this gang was regularly swapping compromised PIN pads for the legitimate versions on retailers' counters. In other words, this gang was allegedly modifying several different models of PIN pads, then swapping them for legitimate PIN pads on store counters. That means they were doing it at multiple retailers, and doing it easily enough that they believed an assembly-line approach made sense.

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