CHICAGO (WGN) - A man has been sentenced to more than six and a half years in federal prison for installing card-skimming devices on ATMs in Chicago and New Jersey.

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois said the card-skimming devices placed on the ATMs were able to steal debit card numbers and PINs from victims.

Florin Nicolae Tarta, 40, and two others reportedly installed the devices on numerous Bank of America ATMs. The devices consisted of a metallic plate affixed with a card reader, memory chip and battery.

Once put into the ATM, the device was able to capture financial account information from users' cards. Tarta and his accomplices also put a pinhole camera near the ATM's keypad to record ATM users entering their PINs, according to investigators.

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