Hacking Ring Nabbed By US Authorities

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 6, 2008 @07:13PM from the go-directly-to-jail dept.

Slatterz writes "The members of a hacking ring responsible for stealing more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers from retail organizations in the US have been caught and charged. The case before the US Department of Justice is believed to be the largest hacking and identity theft case ever prosecuted. The criminals allegedly obtained bank details by hacking into the retailers' computer networks and then installing 'sniffer' programs to capture card numbers and password details as the customers moved through the retailers' credit and debit processing networks."

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Slashdot is days behind the news by Xenna · 2008-08-06 20:02 · Score: 5, Insightful

There used to be a time when you read tech-news first on slashdot. Nowadays I read it in my (Dutch) newspaper first (yep, the paper one that they actually have to print and deliver first) end a few days later it appears in /.
What the hell is wrong?