Justice: Hackers steal 40 million credit card numbers

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Justice: Hackers steal 40 million credit card numbers
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Tue August 5, 2008. CNN.

The indictments, which alleged that at least nine major U.S. retailers were hacked, were unsealed Tuesday in Boston, Massachusetts, and San Diego, California, prosecutors said.

It is believed to be the largest hacking case that the Justice Department has ever tried to prosecute.

Three of the defendants are from the United States; three are from Estonia; three are from Ukraine, two are from China and one is from Belarus.

The remaining individual is known only by an alias and authorities do not know where that person is.

Under the indictments, three Miami, Florida, men -- Albert "Segvec" Gonzalez, Christopher Scott and Damon Patrick Toey -- are accused of hacking into the wireless computer networks of retailers including TJX Companies, whose stores include Marshall's and T.J. Maxx, BJ's Wholesale Club, OfficeMax, Barnes and Noble and Sports Authority, among others.

The three men installed "sniffer" programs designed to capture credit card numbers, passwords and account information as they moved through the retailers' card processing networks, said Michael Sullivan, the U.S. attorney in Boston.

The California indictment charged eight others with operating an international stolen credit and debit card distribution ring, selling stolen card information for personal gain -- millions of dollars, in at least one case, authorities said.

Three of the defendants in the most recent case, among them Gonzalez, were also charged in May in a related indictment in New York, Justice said. Those charges allege the three were engaged in a scheme to hack into computer networks run by the Dave & Buster's restaurant chain and steal credit and debit card numbers from at least 11 locations.

The three installed "sniffer" programs at the cash register terminals of the locations, capturing credit and debit card numbers, authorities said. At one location, the sniffer captured data for some 5,000 cards, causing some $600,000 in losses to the banks that issued the credit and debit cards.

Gonzalez is awaiting trial on the New York charges. The other two of the international defendants are also in custody, police said.


They stole 40 million credit card numbers, this is unbelievable!

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[Prokomenos]

That is the major issue being shown on the news channels all day on TV. Im not shocked either now adays. Didnt some child hack into the NASA or something a few years ago?

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Originally Posted by Prokomenos
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That is the major issue being shown on the news channels all day on TV. Im not shocked either now adays. Didnt some child hack into the NASA or something a few years ago?

Well there is this guy in England who hacked into the Pentagon and Nasa computers who they still are trying to extradite to the U.S. He was looking for evidence of U.F.O's.

[Napalm]

That story is being watched around the world.
Forty million identities got Skopped.

By the way is skoped, the verb to steal one's identity, is it one 'p' or two?