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Frankfurt / Main (dpa / lrs) - The data theft at ATMs in Rhineland-Palatinate has increased slightly in the current year at a low level.
Between January and November 2020 inclusive, criminals manipulated ATMs in the country nine times in order to spy out card data and PINs from bank customers.
This means that after just eleven months the number of “skimming” cases is above the level of the whole of the previous year, in which, according to the Frankfurt facility, Euro Card Systems, there were six “skimming” attacks.
Individual machines can have been targeted by criminals several times.
A manipulated ATM was counted in Saarland in the current year after there was no case there in the entire previous year.
Overall, data theft at ATMs is, according to the Frankfurt experts, an "obsolete model".
With just nine cases, Rhineland-Palatinate already has the fifth highest value in a comparison of the 16 federal states.
According to information from Euro Kartensysteme, the most cases nationwide in the current year up to and including November were in North Rhine-Westphalia (44), followed by Hesse (31), Lower Saxony (16) and Berlin (12).
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A total of 134 “skimming” attempts at ATMs have been registered in Germany so far in 2020.
From January up to and including November 2019 there were 227, and then 245 for 2019 as a whole.
The damage caused by data theft at ATMs in Germany as a whole continued to decrease at a low level in 2020.
Euro card systems put the gross amount of damage from “skimming” up to and including November at just over a million euros.
This is a record low, said the institution that takes care of the security management for payment cards on behalf of the German credit industry.
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