From: BankInfoSecurity
FBI, Police Join with Mass Transit Authorities in Effort
By Eric Chabrow
Joining the FBI and New York City police as a member of the newly formed financial cybercrimes task force is the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. A regional transit company battling financial cybercrime? Makes sense when you look at its computer network.
The MTA, which provides commuter rail, subway and bus services for New York City, its northern suburbs and Long Island, operates a network of 2,700 machines that dispense MetroCards, the plastic transit tickets riders swipe to pay their fares.
And criminals have tampered with those machines. Just last month a Queens, N.Y., man received a 2-to-6-year prison sentence for stealing PIN numbers and other financial information by placing skimming devices and hidden cameras near Long Island Railroad ticket vending machines.
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