Colin Fernandez reports:
A computer wizard branded ‘the most prolific chip and pin fraudster in the UK’ was jailed yesterday for four years.
Theogones De Montford, 29, stole the details of at least 35,000 motorists during a £725,000 scam targeting petrol stations.
He designed tiny circuit boards which he fitted inside chip and pin machines at checkouts at Shell and Texaco garages.
The bugs broadcast the PIN code and credit card details up to 20 miles away via bluetooth for De Montford to pick up using a laptop computer.
The software engineering student then sold them to credit card fraudsters in Britain and across the globe.
Read more in the Daily Mail.