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Who's Selling Credit Cards From Target?
An anonymous reader writes "Brian Krebs has done some detective work to determine who is behind the recent Target credit card hack. Krebs sifted through posts from a series of shady forums, some dating back to 2008, to determine the likely real-life identity of one fraudster. He even turns down a $10,000 bribe offer to keep the information under wraps."
Took about 5 minutes to read it. Didn't see any "first posts!" in the interim. Either others find it as fascinating, or I lack a life reading /. at midnight on Christmas eve.
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If the NSA/FBI/CIA/... was really interested in doing some good with all of the data mining they could solve or at least contribute to resolving cases like this. Prevention would even be better.
to do something that furthers his criminal enterprises has a name. It's called "conspiracy".
So if you ever try your hand at hunting down criminals like this, be aware of the potential danger of tying yourself to the criminal's legal fate. If you've done business withhim that's the least bit shady, and he's overseas beyond the reach of local authorities, things could get quite ugly for you.
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$10,000 to risk his career, professional reputation, etc.? Shows the inexperience of the would-be briber that the sum was so small. 10k doesn't go that far these days...
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Hehe. What do you mean 'even' turns down. Is that supposed to be above the standard? Probably not entirely thought out as it would be 'of course'. If you have any integrity you would never let some crim buy you off.
he took the $10k & then still released the info anyway.
No honor among thieves, right?
I game with someone who works in a high position at one of the top finical firm. And when stuff like this happens, they hear about it and discuss it, since it affects them.
I can not back this up, this is what is I was told:
The credit card fraud was because some of the CC scanners have an extra chip in them, put in at a factory, that allows backdoor access to those machines. Not all the CC scanners have this, only some.
And of course, the extra chip isn't spec.
The person who told me is out of town till the end of week, so I can't hear any more updates till probably next week on it.
Be seeing you...
Every time something like this happens there's all this rending of clothes and wailing about it, but almost no one offers the simplest, most direct way to fix it: Impose high financial penalties on the companies who lose customer or patient data. Something like: If you, as a customer/patient incur any expense because of a breech you're entitled to reimbursement of 5 to 10 times the actual out of pocket cost.
Put a law like that on the books, and I guarantee that retailers, hospitals, insurance companies, etc. will lock down their systems and these stories will all but disappear.
seeing as how the chipped cards cost 5 times as much, I think we can consider this discussion closed :-D you know, the mantra of Wall Street is "screw the future, what are you doing for us this quarter?"
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
I pity the sucker who buys my credit card number.
Simple. Pay with cash.
Quite frankly, I'd love to see all parties involved in this theft caught and executed live on f*cking PPV television.
Just because this guy and others are selling them, does not mean that they did the work.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.