Credit Card Machines Wired to Red China (!!)

Somebody in Red China is watching you, courtesy of FIS Worldpay--which owns Milwaukee's Metavante (M&I Data).

...The U.S. Treasury Department says that millions of Chinese point-of-sale (POS) devices, the credit card machines found at check-out counters, could be sending customer data back to China for no good reason.

Treasury Department lab tests show that the data is encrypted and sent to unknown third parties in China. The transmissions are “superfluous to normal payment transaction processing,” according to a letter from the Treasury’s Office of Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection...

FIS Worldpay has about 57 million credit card spying devices in place around the world.

That's why you get all those calls from Chinese-speakers.