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Cracker Gains Access to 2.2 Million Credit Cards
Doctor Sbaitso writes "CNN reports that a hacker bypassed the security system of a company that processes credit card transactions and gained access to approximately 2.2 million Visa and MasterCard credit cards. Fortunately, none of them seem to have been used fraudulently."
pfft, back in my day, we could generate as many valid credit card numbers as we wanted. of course, those usually got used fraudulently....
Damn white boys need to stay away from them computers!!
I dont like the use of racial slurs like that on /.
So THATs why $5 was paid to Slashdot without me remembering!
damn kevin mitnick!
This is a great security threat for our nation! Just think of all the plastic explosives terrorists could create with 2.2 million credit cards!
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I guess tomorrow all the online pr0n stores will be sold out of everything!
You mean 'none of them seem to have been used fradulently YET'
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I heard on TV that they have contacted the issuing banks. I am going to call tomorrow and find out if mine was hijacked, then if I can get these charges to CompUSA removed
New leaf my ass. Welcome back, Kevin ;-)
You get the idea.
You'll have that sometimes...
obviously the humor in the use of the word "cracker" in the article title was lost.
this report says 5 million cards
Some of them were gold and platinum cards, so you have to count them more than once.
Hacking cash is called "counterfeiting". Its way old school. ;-)
Online Viagra purchase: $150
Trisexual Midget porn : $55
Buying it on someone elses credit card so that your wife never finds out: Priceless
There's somet things that money can buy but you'd rather it not be your own. For everything else, there's Mastercard.
Thank goodness my Visa Checkcard has a negative balance right now! :)
Denied!
Steve Magruder, Metro Foodist
Mine was stolen, but the thief's using it less than the wife did.
ba-dum ching!