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Credit Card Security, Marshawn’s Hamstring & More News

The top Seattle news stories you should be reading today

By Danny Calkins October 1, 2015

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More secure credit card chip readers are supposed to be installed in stores by Thursday, although only 27 percent of retailers have the new machines, KIRO 7 reports. Cards with chips will no longer be swiped, but dipped into the new readers that provide an added level of security by creating a unique code for every transaction and not transmitting personal information. Representatives from VISA and Mastercard told retailers they have until Thursday to install the machines or they could be held responsible for fraud. According to a report by Barclays, 47 percent of the world’s credit card fraud happens in the U.S.

Wreckage from the car crash that killed actor James Dean in 1955 is one of the most sought-after and mysterious artifacts in Hollywood history—and it may be in Bellingham, KING 5 reports. “This one is the unicorn so to speak,” Brian Grams, owner of the Volo Auto Museum in Chicago, told KING 5. Fraudulent reports of the 1955 Porsche 550’s whereabouts are not new to Grams, who said he has heard it all—that the car is somewhere in Japan or that it is buried in a swamp. However, Grams recently received a tip from a man claiming he witnessed his father and a group of men hiding the car—lost during transport in 1960—in a building in Bellingham. The man, a Las Vegas resident named Shaun Reilly, is persistent with his story and even passed a polygraph test. “It’s not the car. It is the history of it. The uncovering the mystery, that is the exciting part. It would just be nice to share that with the public.”

Washington state’s minimum wage will not increase in 2016, KOMO News reports. State officials announced that the current minimum wage of $9.47 will not increase because inflation did not increase in the last year. It is only the second time since 1998 that the minimum wage has not increased in Washington, meaning the state will lose its title of having the highest minimum wage in the country. California and Massachusetts will reach $10 an hour on January 1.

Marshawn Lynch is 50/50 to play Monday night against the Detroit Lions due to a hamstring injury, ESPN reports. Coach Pete Carroll told ESPN Monday that Lynch—who has missed one game since he came to the Seahawks in 2010—will have an MRI this week and the team will not know for certain until this weekend if the Pro Bowl running back can suit up. Lynch’s five carries Sunday against the Bears were his fewest in any regular season game with the Seahawks.

 

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