Press release from Eau Claire, Wisconsin police:
Eau Claire Police Investigators have new information regarding the credit card scanner that was found at the US Bank ATM on Golf Rd. Investigation has determined that the same individuals may have placed the scanner at the same ATM at about 12:30PM on Friday, 9/17/2010 and picked it up at 4:20PM the same day. The scanner was placed there again on Saturday, 9/18/2010 but was found by a customer and is now in police custody.
It does appear that some information was stolen when the scanner was picked up at 4:20PM on 9/17/2010. A customer who used the ATM on that date now reports unauthorized transactions on his card. US Bank is in the process of canceling cards for customers who used the ATM during the time that the scanner was on the machine.
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Accessing people’s credit cards at an ATM? I think they meant debit cards.