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London Underground Data Breach (2013)

London Underground

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Disclosed

January 1, 2013

4833 days ago

Records

Undisclosed

Confirmed

Root Cause

Hacking

Industry

Transportation

Description

On April 10 a plain clothes British Transport Police (BTP) officer found a skimming device – used to read bank card details – on a ticket machine at the station on Highbury Corner. In this case, a green card reader was placed over the original reader to record passengers’ card details, while a pinhole camera was fitted above the keypad to capture the victim’s PIN number.