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Ukrainian Arrested In India For TJX Data Theft
ComputerWorld reports "A Ukrainian national has been arrested in India in connection with the most notorious hacking incident in US history." "Sergey Valeryevich Storchark was one of 11 men charged in August 2008 with hacking into nine US retailers and selling tens of millions of credit card numbers. He was arrested in India earlier this week, according to a spokesman with India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). In a statement, the CBI said they'd arrested Storchark in New Delhi on the night of May 8, as he deplaned from a flight from Goa, for layover before a flight to Turkey. US authorities had asked for his extradition via diplomatic channels. ... 'His extradition and prosecution would have been very unlikely had he reached his final destination of Ukraine,' the CBI said."
These scum bags belong in prison for life.
Are you referring to the scumbag identity thieves or the scumbags in the financial sector that decided that someone entering a DOB and SSN on a website would be enough "verification" of identity to allow someone to open credit accounts?
I know someone who applied for and received a $25,000 line of credit from Citi online with no actual verification of who he was. His credit card arrived in the mail a few days later. He had recently moved and his new address wasn't even on his credit report yet. You'd think the fact that the card was going to a previously unknown address would be enough to set off a red flag but it didn't. All he did was apply online using information that any idiot who was willing to dumpster diving could have retrieved.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Don't shoot them. Just release all their personal details to everyone whose information they stole. Probably at least one of the victims is unstable enough to track the bastard down and exact revenge for the whole group of victims... especially true if we're talking about millions of victims.
I had an incident where somebody ordered an item with my wife's credit card and had it shipped to another address. When we complained that this transaction was not authorized, they took it off my wife's account, but refused to disclose the address the item had been shipped to, citing "privacy" concerns. Hold on -- people are allowed to commit fraud but still retain their "right" to privacy?!? If it's my account, I have a right to disclosure of full details on every transaction! Again, provide full disclosure, and eventually the criminals will attempt to screw over the wrong person -- which is win-win for the rest of us.
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
That's not attractive nuisance. An attractive nuisance is something that is inviting but dangerous to children, like an unfenced swimming pool or a broken swingset. A pile of gold may be inviting, but it's not dangerous. And attractive nuisance isn't a mitigating factor in charges against the child, it's a charge against the person who left the nuisance where it could do harm to the child.
Stealing others' property is never excused by "they should have locked it up" arguments. Nor is hacking into others' computers.