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X-Ray Scans Expose an Ingenious Chip-and-Pin Card Hack

Posted on October 19, 2015 by Dissent

Andy Greenberg reports:

In a so-called “chip-and-PIN” system, a would-be thief has to both steal a victim’s chip-enabled card and be able to enter the victim’s PIN. But French forensics researchers have dissected a real-world case in which criminals outsmarted that system with a seamless chip-switching trick—and pulled off the feat with a slip of plastic that’s almost indistinguishable from a normal credit card.

Read more on Wired.

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