Romanian man, in U.S. illegally, sentenced to federal prison for ATM 'skimming'
MassLive.com
SPRINGFIELD -- A Romanian man was sentenced to 28 months plus one day in federal prison on Wednesday in connection with a $350,000, multi-state swindle of bank customers using ATM "skimmers." So-called skimmer scams have been growing...

Cops: Suspect in more than 20 ATM skimming incidents arrested
Newsday
Gabriel Olaru, 30, of Queens, was to be arraigned Thursday, May 25, 2017, on charges related to his his arrest Tuesday after he went to retrieve an ATM skimming device from a 7-Eleven in Flanders, Southampton Town police said. Photo Credit: Southampton...

Credit card skimmers discovered locally
Community journal
The most common skimmers to date are externally placed on credit card scanning equipment used mostly by the pubic, such as ATM machines, Hierholzer said. “These are made to look exactly like the ones on the machines,” Hierholzer said. “It is equipped ...

BTech student held for ATM fraud
Times of India
NEW DELHI: A 22-year-old BTech student, Mukul Rajpat, was arrested on Tuesday from his residence in Kalkaji for duping banks of around Rs 1 lakh through ATM fraud. While scanning through online videos Rajput came across a post showing a person...

For bankers, ATM hacks are less about losing a few lakhs & more about erosion of reputation. Read why
Economic Times
ATMs get infected when third party service engineers use (virus) infected pen drives. ... The type of OS does not really matter but absence of security updates and frequent “patching” (fixing software glitches) makes ATMs vulnerable to malware attacks.

Video shows thieves placing card skimmer on device inside West LA gas station
KABC-TV
Detective Sean Williams with the Los Angeles Police Department said crooks are taking identity theft a step further by putting the devices in plain sight. "Normally you'll see them on gas pumps a lot or at ATMS outside of banks," he said. A man, who ...