R3r3trohack3r·Dec 3, 2022Submission
MagSpoof: Wireless Magstrip Spoofer
212 points · Open discussionsamyk
magspoof
C2015–2022
samyk / magspoof
magspoof
A portable device that can spoof/emulate any magnetic stripe, credit card or hotel card "wirelessly", even on standard magstripe (non-NFC/RFID) readers. It can disable Chip&PIN and predict AMEX card numbers with 100% accuracy.
3Distinct people
4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
4.2KGitHub stars
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What it is
A portable device that can spoof/emulate any magnetic stripe, credit card or hotel card "wirelessly", even on standard magstripe (non-NFC/RFID) readers. It can disable Chip&PIN and predict AMEX card numbers with 100% accuracy.
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HN mentions by year4 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2015-11-24 21:56:46 UTC to 2022-12-03 19:35:47 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesMagspoof – credit card/magstripe spoofer
1 points · Open discussionThere's more gems in there, e.g. a couple of Amex vulnerabilities:
https://github.com/samyk/magspoof#american-express-card-numb...
> I found a global pattern that allows me to accurately predict American Express card numbers by knowing a full card number, even if already reported lost or stolen.
> This means if I were to obtain your Amex card and you called it in as lost or stolen, the moment you get a new card, I know your new credit card number.
In MagSpoof – wireless credit card/magstripe spooferMagSpoof – wireless credit card/magstripe spoofer
541 points · Open discussion