LIRR Ticket Machine's Card Skimmer Discovery

Workers detected small hidden cameras and card skimmers at ticket machines last week, during a regular inspection.

LIRR Vice President of Customer Service and Public Affairs Joe Calderone stated to 1010 WINS, "They are made to blend in to the ticket vending machine so that a customer wouldn't necessarily detect anything". The minuscule camera records pin numbers as users tap them into machines, while skimmers extract magnetic strip data on debit and credit cards.

MTA police stated that 35-year-old Vasile Ovidiu Haidau has been identified as meddling with a ticket machine, at the station during the findings. He ran away as officers tried to stop him. Haidau was last observed on Sunrise Highway driving a 2004 blue Volvo S80 rental car, with NY plates GKR5959, heading west.

Train rider Armando Polanco exclaimed to CBS 2: "I use that machine with my credit card. I used it last month, so I have to check my bills, and I know other people, it's the same thing. It's just bad". The suspected criminal is a Romanian national, thought to be participating in an identity-theft and credit car ring. Vasile Ovidiu Haidau has a revoked visa and is considered dangerous by the police department.