A very important consumer alert, local Hoboken bank ATM has been hit with a 'skimmer'

If you were at the downtown Hoboken Sovereign Bank, and used their ATM machine, you may have been a victim of a 'skimming' machine, which slides into the ATM card slot and captures your account and PIN information. The 'skimmer' doesn't look all that different from a regular ATM slot. Bank officials have said two men dressed as technicians set up the dummy card slot on September 10, September 17 and October 3rd. Account info was stolen and used to make withdrawals in New York City from at least 30 customers totaling $19,000.

Hoboken Sovereign Bank did not tell NJ.com how they planned to protect their customers info going forward or what they were willing to do for victims who had their information stolen at the branch. Since bank officials were aware of these thieves in their lobby doing this THREE times on security cameras, and have said as much, You'd HOPE they'd want to help you with some kind of credit monitoring or other protection. You'd hope.

Call the bank at (201) 418-7900 if you think you were a victim. If you used that ATM, check your statements.