DVD Red Boxes Skimming Credit Cards

You know those $1 Movie Kiosks at the local grocery store? You can rent movies with the swipe of a credit card without having to deal with pimply-faced morons behind the counter. But the problem with unattended kiosks is that they are unattended. There are no employees and no security cameras either. Criminals know this too and have taken advantage of such kiosks to commit crimes in Arizona.

An example of a RedBox machine with an illegal credit card skimmer attached.

From Brian Krebs at the WaPo here:

the company discovered evidence that criminals had retrofitted at least three of the machines with devices to steal credit-card information.

The company said several RedBox machines had been fitted with “skimmers” — magnetic stripe reading and storage devices that can be installed over the top of existing card readers. RedBox said it found an illegal skimming device attached to one machine in Tempe, Ariz., and that it had discovered evidence of skimming at two other locations in Las Cruces, N.M.