February 8,2018
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood Police report that on February 5th, Ptl. Zachary Knudsen responded to Valley National Bank located on 103 Franklin Avenue on a report of the bank discovering damage to the ATM machine on the premise. Upon arrival a bank ATM technician was on scene and reported the ATM was inspected and determined to have been compromised by an unknown actor altering the internal components of the machine between 2/3/18 and 2/5/18.
The Ridgewood Detective Bureau and Valley National Bank are investigating the incident. Any person who utilized the ATM machine at the above location should contact Valley National Bank and monitor your account and report any fraudulent activity.
Damage? Let’s read between Jerry Lipkin’s lines:
Someone put a skimmer on the machine and for 2 days ( probably longer) his employees (technician? Ye right. ) didn’t do their daily inspection to stop said skimming and now your screwed.
I like the plain English version better. Thanks Jerry.