Posted on 04/24/2015 2:40:30 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
It would be comical, were it not such big business for bad people.
[The vendor wasn't named by the researchers, David Byrne and Charles Henderson, but they did disclose the password: 166816.
A Google search reveals that's the default password for several models of credit card terminal sold by Verifone, a Silicon Valley-based vendor that says it connects 27 million payment devices and has operations in 150 countries.
The researchers said that the password remains in use on nine out of 10 terminals they see from the vendor, in part because customers mistakenly assume it is unique to them.]
"Even knowing this password, sensitive payment information or (personally identifiable information) cannot be captured," says Verifone.
I want to go back to 1972.
I remember when we had to look up number in a tiny print magazine that was updated monthly and the swipe machine had an ink roller.
Let me guess: password
1234
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