Does skimming still happen a lot? At least in Europe we have switched from magnetic strip to chip-based cards, which are protected against replay attacks.
We have chips but magnetic strips are still on most credit cards and payments are still accepted that way in many older payments gateways. From what I read on the topic the cost of lost business if this was disabled is greater than eating the cost of skimmer attacks. There is a several year plan to phase it out entirely. It's mostly because initially when chips came out a lot of business owners were angry that they had to buy new payment machines and good luck explaining this to a none tech person.
We have chips but magnetic strips are still on most credit cards and payments are still accepted that way in many older payments gateways. From what I read on the topic the cost of lost business if this was disabled is greater than eating the cost of skimmer attacks. There is a several year plan to phase it out entirely. It's mostly because initially when chips came out a lot of business owners were angry that they had to buy new payment machines and good luck explaining this to a none tech person.