Hacking Ring Nabbed By US Authorities

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."

Comments

Hacking?

[houghi]

Dear editor,

You use the word hacking, but I don't think it means what you think it means.

On all other laces I would let it slide by, but this is /. and yes I blame the editor, because (s)he should, uh, edit the stories.