Botnet of 20,000 point-of-sale machines

I read about this the other day and suspect it may have infected our neighborhood grocery store. A whole slew of my neighbors had their credit cards compromised last month, all of whom used their cards at that store. At least one or two had their replacement cards compromised, too, sometimes within hours of using them for the first time (at the same store).

The store issued a vague apology and I noticed the other day that they had entirely new credit card machines at all their cash registers. I wonder who paid for it.

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