Columbia Bank the Latest to Be Hit with ATM Skimming Scheme
The Baltimore Sun reports it wasn’t your traditional bank heist, but thieves recently got away with more than $90,000 from Columbia Bank by using a scheme called “skimming.” The thieves implanted a device in October on an ATM at the bank’s Long Gate Parkway branch in Ellicott City, collecting account information each time a customer used the machine over two weekends, officials say. Armed with this information, they were able to withdraw money from customers’ accounts — which the bank later replaced.
