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U.S. Govt. Appears To Have Nabbed Kurupt.su Carding Kingpin
tsu doh nimh writes "The Justice Department on Monday announced the arrest of a Dutch man wanted for coordinating the theft of roughly 44,000 credit card numbers. The government hasn't released many details about the accused, except for his name and hacker handle, 'Fortezza.' But data from a variety of sources indicates that Fortezza was a lead administrator of Kurupt.su, a large, recently-shuttered forum dedicated to carding and Internet fraud. Krebsonsecurity.com provides some background on Fortezza, who 'claimed to be "quitting the scene," but spoke often about finishing a project with which he seemed obsessed: to hack and plunder all of the other carding forums.'"
RTFA, Krebs almost seems sympathetic for the guy.
I don't care much for the whole extradition-to-the-US thing, but this is not your average whitehat/greyhat hacker, highlighting security issues by breaking systems, or for the lulz.
This is card skimming pond scum, doing it for profit. Good riddance, I say.
this hero of the people taking from the evil banks and redistributing back to the little people will never lose
It was credit card fraud. The only people that lose are the shops who take credit cards and maybe a few rich people who don't check their statements.
If the banks were losing out from this though would change the credit card system.