BALTIMORE, MD—Customers who shopped at certain Weis Markets stores in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia earlier this year may have had their payment card information compromised.

The supermarket chain announced last week that skimmers were found at three of its stores in January and March. Skimmers are devices that can be placed on checkout lanes to capture the account numbers and passwords of customers’ payment cards.

The stores where skimmers were found include one in Pennsylvania, one in Maryland and one in Virginia:

• Weis Markets Store 166 located at 2836 PA-611 in Tannersville, Pa. (skimmer discovered Jan. 30)
• Weis Markets Store 84 located at 7200 Holabird Avenue in Dundalk, Md. (skimmer discovered March 15)
• Weis Markets Store 297 at 282 Deacon Road in Fredericksburg, Va. (skimmer discovered March 16)

Weis Markets says its investigation into the skimmers determined that they were capable of capturing track data from payment cards, including PIN data, according to Progressive Grocer. However, the company says the investigation did not identify evidence confirming that any third party captured customers’ payment card information from the skimmers.

Still, the company says it conducted a review of the checkout lanes where the skimmers were located and determined that certain customers’ payment card numbers with and without PINs may have been accessed by an unknown third party during certain periods between Jan. 28 and Jan. 30 at the Tannersville store and between March 14 and March 16 at the Dundalk and Fredericksburg stores.

Weis Markets says it’s not aware of anyone’s information having been misused in relation to the incident, but the company is cautioning customers to monitor their accounts for suspicious activity. Weis Markets also recommends customers review their account statements, monitor their credit reports closely, and notify their financial institutions if unusual activity is detected. Customers should immediately report any suspected identity theft or fraudulent activity to law enforcement, such as the police or state attorney general.

Skimming devices were also found at two Baltimore-area Weis Markets locations in 2023.

This article was written with the assistance of AI and reviewed by a human editor.

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