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“The insert skimmer pictured above is approximately .68 millimeters tall.”

Brian Krebskrebsonsecurity.com ↗

The skimmer sits inside the card slot and is barely thicker than the card itself. A pinhole camera in a fake side panel grabs the PIN. They were pulled from NCR machines around New York City. This only works because US cards still carry a magnetic stripe decades after the chip was supposed to kill it.