Originally Posted by
Jimmie76
Well if everyone had adopted chip and pin then the risk of cloned cards would be greatly reduced. Then the data that was compromised in the recent breaches would be of less interest. It will be interesting to see how Apple are using the tokenisation technology in the Apple Pay system.
I would note that Home Depot Canada was compromised by the attack. Presumably most of their transactions were Chip & PIN. That said, I have a hard time believing that the reader could download the entire chip. I've always been surprised how slow C&P devices seem to be.