AN Orange woman’s bank account has been cleaned out by a fraudster in Cairo after a security compromise in an EFTPOS machine at an Orange business.
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The woman discovered the funds were missing on Monday night when she went to pay for her groceries and the purchase was declined.
“I knew I should have had more than $2000 on my Visa debit card in that particular account so when I went home I checked it by phone and then I realised the money was missing,” she said.
“I was just about to call the Orange Credit Union first thing the next morning to tell them I was concerned and they rang me.
“They asked if I had travelled overseas recently, but of course I haven’t.”
The credit card fraudster had used the card on a shopping spree in Cairo, spending as little as $6.40 on one transaction up to a maximum of $400 on another.
The woman’s bank account along with thousands of others involving a credit card at Orange Credit Union have been frozen.
The Australian Federal Police confirmed yesterday the Orange credit card security breach was one of several being investigated across Australia.
The AFP would not provide information as to the location of the EFTPOS machine in Orange, which was the subject of the fraud, saying it was part of an investigations still being undertaken by AFP officers.
“This is one of a series of merchants whose individual computer systems have been compromised,” Superintendent Brad Marden said.
“The AFP has identified the cause of the data compromise and an active investigation into the matter is continuing.”
The AFP said it was not in a position to provide details of how the security breach occurred at the EFTPOS terminal.
The Central Western Daily contacted other banking institutions in Orange to comment on the compromising of security at a local EFTPOS facility and the impact on cardholders. Orange Credit Union was the only one to respond.