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."

Comments

Re:Good Journalsim, Good Article

[Spy Handler]

Yes it was very good, Krebs writes well and he seems to know his stuff.

That being said, was it really that easy? His steps to finding the perpetrator was:

-Scan underground sites that sell stolen credit cards
-Do a small buy to get a sample
-Found cards that matched the ones stolen from Target
-Dig through various forum/social network archives to see if any matched the owner of the underground site (from step #1)
-Contact the perp to see if he makes any incriminating statements (which he did by offering $10k bribe)

The perp may be an uber elite hacker, but he's very noob when it comes to hiding his tracks.

Re:Purview of NSA?

[TechyImmigrant]

Or the banks could switch to chip and pin cards and upgrade the crypto sufficiently to make it secure.