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Glut In Stolen Identities Forces Price Cut
CowboyRobot writes "The price of a stolen identity has dropped as much as 37 percent in the cybercrime underground: to $25 for a U.S. identity, and $40 for an overseas identity. For $300 or less, you can acquire credentials for a bank account with a balance of $70,000 to $150,000, and $400 is all it takes to get a rival or targeted business knocked offline with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)-for-hire attack. Meanwhile, ID theft and bank account credentials are getting cheaper because there is just so much inventory (a.k.a. stolen personal information) out there. Bots are cheap, too: 1,000 bots go for $20, and 15,000, for $250."
In Mexico you can't make any kind of transaction without your voter registration card.
Mexico has voter registration cards? That's interesting, because in the US there's a political party that says that Americans of Mexican descent are too stupid or feeble or something to obtain voter registration cards, and thus supporting any "You have to show ID when you vote" law is racist. I wonder what the difference is between people of Mexican descent in Mexico and people of Mexican descent in the US.