$8 card reader to hack your credit cards

I came across the internet and read from from markpascua.com blog about how easy to hack another’s people credit cards using RFIDs card reader that just cost $8.00. This was originally shown on demo from boing boing website (boingboing.com).

RFIDs was made for security purpose and to transfer data more faster during the transaction. And currently more companies are issuing their credit cards with embedded one.

The $8.00 card reader can read personal data from those credit cards such as the cardholder name, credit card numbers and whatever else your bank embeds in this manner.

Seems that it is too cheap and easy the “sniffing” can be, Holmans the hacker and inventor recommends using a metal wallet.