Merchants not vigilant about wiping point-of-sale machines clean

CBC News reports:

Thieves are accessing personal financial information using the old-fashioned smash-and-grab method, but what they're grabbing are point-of-sale terminals, not merchandise.

CBC-TV's Marketplace has learned that many retailers are not helping the situation because they leave valuable information on the terminals where customers swipe their debit and credit cards when paying for purchases instead of wiping the data each night as they're supposed to.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2010/03/11/consumer-credit-card-scams.html?ref=rss#ixzz0iGsy2FzJ