NEW: Sen. Wyden demands tighter federal security requirements for SNAP cards as more households become victims of electronic theft.
Participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, receive funds for groceries on electronic benefit transfer cards. In recent months, thievesWhile skimming is not unique to EBT cards, security measures such as embedded microchips and contactless payments have combated it in the consumer credit card and debit card industry. No state SNAP agency issues EBT cards with chips, only cards with magnetic stripes, according to the U.S. Agriculture Department.
In a letter to the USDA first shared with NBC News, Wyden, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee who has worked to bolster U.S. cybersecurity, wrote that EBT card information stored on magnetic stripes — technology that dates back to the 1960s — is easy for criminals to clone.The letter added that companies such as Mastercard are phasing out magnetic stripes, and it urged the USDA to issue regulations requiring the same for EBT cards.
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