Chip card technology has become the standard at merchants throughout the United States -- and the world -- supplementing or replacing the magnetic stripe readers that have been used for decades.

Ohio is moving to harden its food assistance system after a wave of electronic theft drained millions of dollars from low income families' grocery budgets. State leaders are now betting that chip ...

Your credit or debit card with a chip in it, touted as being less vulnerable than magnetic strip cards, may not be as safe as you think. Some consumers' chip cards are getting hacked anyway and they ...

The Alabama Department of Human Resources has begun rolling out chip-enabled EBT cards for federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program participants as a fraud-prevention measure, amid the ...

Card present (CP) fraud happens even with chip-enabled credit cards. Skimming and shimming are ways thieves steal personal information. File a complaint with your card issuer or agencies like the CFPB ...