Updated On: 10 September, 2019 02:35 PM IST | Tokyo | mid-day online correspondent
The 34-year-old clerk, working at a mall in Koto City, near Tokyo allegedly memorised the 16-digit credit card number, security code and expiry date of customers and used it to make purchases online

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Tokyo: A clerk in Japan who worked the register part-time at a mall in Koto City in Japan allegedly stole credit card information of over 1300 customers by just looking at and memorising the details. The clerk identified Taniguchi made several purchased online.
Taniguchi's modus-operandi was whenever a customer would pay by credit card, he allegedly memorised their 16-digit-number, name, expiry date, and security code and used it to make purchases online, said a report in japantoday.com on Sunday.