Several Automated Teller Machines in VI, Lekki Phase 1 & 2,
Ikoyi have been compromised by hackers.
The hackers have installed small chips on the ATMs to
harvest passwords and bank card details of the
cardholders.
Top bank officials privy to the development said a number of
banks had deployed detectives to monitor their ATMs in those
locations, especially in the Victoria Island and Lekki axis.
This is what a banker working with Nigeria’s most popular
bank said yesterday:
“A number of the ATMs in Victoria Island and Lekki axis have
been compromised by hackers. Some of these fraudsters visit
those ATMs very late in the night or very early in the morning to
fix some fraud devices on them, which are capable of collecting
cardholders’ information, including their passwords.
“They come back later to remove those devices. The
information collected is then used to commit fraud against
those customers later.
“Most of us (banks) are aware of the development and we are
very vigilant now. What some of us have done is to get a patrol
team of security men to start combing the affected areas and
the ATMs from time to time. We will get those guys soon.”
Some of the information collected are being used to do
online transaction while many are being used to produce
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