. >> the customers were unddestanding about it.we had no control of. >> reporter: willy sanchez, is the manlie manager at qdoba. police told them that someone hacked their system and stole the credit card numbers. -n other words, the culprit was on a computer. >> it happened to 7 iffeeent businesses in the area. >> reeorter: the case was turned over to the secret service where thhy are fighting modern thiefery, hackers and skimmers. basically stealing your credit card information during a very legitimate transactioo. >>>reporter: skimmers plant a small device on a cash rrgister, an atm even a gas pump. every time you swipe your card it captures the information. from there the information is likely sold to criminals who make a new credit card with the stolen number. >> we have people doing it here locally, but there's also people doing it overseas as part of an argued crime sinne syndicate, t3 in real profile. %->> reporter: the owings mills victims have reported fraudulent purchases, some totaling thoussnds of dollars, in the state