Pump 5 at the Gulf station on Route 3A in Hingham, Massachusetts, had been reported malfunctioning for a few days, and when technicians finally opened it up Wednesday, they discovered hackers had snuck in a “skimmer,” a device to steal motorists’ credit card numbers as they swipe them to buy gas.
It was just the very latest in a national epidemic of gas station hacking. Just in the last week, according to news reports, skimmer hacker devices have been reported found not just in Hingham but in Goffstown, New Hampshire; Bloomington, Minnesota; Howell, Michigan; Cape Coral, Florida; seven counties in Ohio, and 12 parishes around Baton Rouge, Louisiana. For the full article click here
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