My card was once copied - but not at an ATM but from a self-service pay terminal inside a large mall. Like this one: http://www.blattus.de/oldies/scans/2012/les

My card was once copied - but not at an ATM but from a self-service pay terminal inside a large mall. Like this one: http://www.blattus.de/oldies/scans/2012/lesegeraet.jpg http://www.blattus.de/oldies/scans/2012/lesegeraet.jpg Apparently some criminals broke into the mall, and manipulated all terminals to record and wirelessly transmit the card information. The skimming devices were not visible from the outside, since they were mounted on the inside of the terminals. Therefore they haven't been found for multiple months - until finally money was withdrawn with cloned cards. In my case it was around 100€ that were withdrawn somewhere in India. Fortunately my bank immediately detected it, locked the card and notified me and also gave me my money back later. When I reported it to the police I learned that thousands of people where affected. Since that point of time the mall has locks and anti-tempering seals around all card reader terminals.