This financial musing goes into criminals targeting store and other terminals to get card info and pins – they seem to be targeting debit cards more than credit cards. This article in USA Today by
Byron Acohido goes into reasons why this may be:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2012/11/05/debit-card-account-theft-qa/1677537/
If the debit cards are being targeted, since they directly access a checking account and don’t have the same government loss restrictions as credit cards, be careful using your debit card!
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