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UAE cash machine hacked by fraudsters over seven-day period
The United Arab Emirates' central bank said a gang of fraudsters hacked into a bank's automated teller machine and copied users' credit-card data over a seven-day period.
- Bloomberg
- Published: 00:47 March 3, 2008
- Image Credit: Gulf News Archive
- Banks must replace cards or change personal identification numbers of all those who used the machine between February 19 and February 25.
Dubai: The United Arab Emirates' central bank said a gang of fraudsters hacked into a bank's automated teller machine and copied users' credit-card data over a seven-day period.
Banks must replace cards or change personal identification numbers of all those who used the machine between February 19 and February 25, a statement on the Abu Dhabi-based central bank's website dated February 28 said.
The statement didn't name the bank or the location of the cash machine where the fraud occurred.
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