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Sep 11, 2014 | 7:08 am

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Originally Posted by Dubai Stu

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.

I've just looked into that (and read this

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"Home Depot said on Tuesday that the attack compromised chip-and-PIN cards and older cards that require only a signature to use."

(http://www.thestar.com/business/tech...le_online.html)
which is slightly alarming to say the least. I'm now wondering if the information downloaded could be used to fill a new blank chipped card and that is worrying if they captured the pin somehow as well.

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