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  maandag 17 augustus 2009 @ 23:42:16 #1
89730 Drugshond
De Euro. Mislukt vanaf dag 1.
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Niet echt AEX, wel de moeite waard.


Gov't: Man tried to steal 130M credit card numbers

By DEVLIN BARRETT (AP) – 42 minutes ago

WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors on Monday charged a Miami man with the largest case of credit and debit card data theft ever in the United States, accusing the one-time government informant of trying to gain access to 130 million accounts.

Albert Gonzalez, 28, broke his own record for identity theft by hacking into retail networks, according to prosecutors, though they say his illicit computer exploits ended when he went to jail on charges stemming from a previous case.

Gonzalez is a former informant for the U.S. Secret Service who helped the agency hunt hackers, authorities say. The agency later found out that he had also been working with criminals and feeding them information on ongoing investigations, even warning off at least one individual, according to authorities.

Gonzalez, who is already in jail awaiting trial in a hacking case, was indicted Monday in New Jersey and charged with conspiring with two other unnamed suspects to steal the private information.

Prosecutors say Gonzalez, who is known online as "soupnazi," targeted customers of convenience store giant 7-Eleven Inc. and supermarket chain Hannaford Brothers, Co. Inc. They also targeted Heartland Payment Systems, a New Jersey-based card payment processor.

Gonzalez is awaiting trial in New York for allegedly helping hack the computer network of the national restaurant chain Dave and Buster's. Trial in that case is due to begin next month.

He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of the new charges.

The Justice Department said the new case represents the largest alleged credit and debit card data breach ever charged in the United States, beginning in October 2006.

Gonzalez allegedly devised a sophisticated attack to penetrate the computer networks, steal the card data, and send that data to computer servers in California, Illinois, Latvia, the Netherlands and Ukraine.

Also last year, the Justice Department announced additional charges against Gonzalez and others for hacking retail companies' computers for the theft of approximately 40 million credit cards. At the time, that was believed to be the biggest single case of hacking private computer networks to steal credit card data, puncturing the electronic defenses of retailers including Barnes & Noble, Sports Authority and OfficeMax.

At the time of those charges, officials said the alleged thieves weren't computer geniuses, just opportunists who used a technique called "wardriving," which involved cruising through different areas with a laptop computer and looking for accessible wireless Internet signals. Once they located a vulnerable network, they installed so-called "sniffer programs" that captured credit and debit card numbers as they moved through a retailer's processing networks.

Gonzalez faces a possible life sentence if convicted in that case.

Restaurants are among the most common targets for hackers, experts said, because they often fail to update their antivirus software and other computer security systems.
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O la la...... 130 miljoen credit card nummers. Dat zal het vertrouwen in plastic money geen goed doen.
  maandag 17 augustus 2009 @ 23:42:44 #2
261659 Folmer
To fly, or to fall?
pi_71967774
Hoi ik kan geen engels.
pi_71967813
quote:
Op maandag 17 augustus 2009 23:42 schreef Folmer het volgende:
Hoi ik kan geen engels.
Ook geen Nederlands, is zojuist vastgesteld
  maandag 17 augustus 2009 @ 23:45:01 #4
89730 Drugshond
De Euro. Mislukt vanaf dag 1.
  dinsdag 18 augustus 2009 @ 00:01:25 #5
261659 Folmer
To fly, or to fall?
pi_71968205
Dat stomme ding wil het woord hacking maar niet vertalen.
pi_71978305
quote:
Op maandag 17 augustus 2009 23:42 schreef Drugshond het volgende:
Niet echt AEX, wel de moeite waard.


Gov't: Man tried to steal 130M credit card numbers

By DEVLIN BARRETT (AP) – 42 minutes ago

WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors on Monday charged a Miami man with the largest case of credit and debit card data theft ever in the United States, accusing the one-time government informant of trying to gain access to 130 million accounts.

Albert Gonzalez, 28, broke his own record for identity theft by hacking into retail networks, according to prosecutors, though they say his illicit computer exploits ended when he went to jail on charges stemming from a previous case.

Gonzalez is a former informant for the U.S. Secret Service who helped the agency hunt hackers, authorities say. The agency later found out that he had also been working with criminals and feeding them information on ongoing investigations, even warning off at least one individual, according to authorities.

Gonzalez, who is already in jail awaiting trial in a hacking case, was indicted Monday in New Jersey and charged with conspiring with two other unnamed suspects to steal the private information.

Prosecutors say Gonzalez, who is known online as "soupnazi," targeted customers of convenience store giant 7-Eleven Inc. and supermarket chain Hannaford Brothers, Co. Inc. They also targeted Heartland Payment Systems, a New Jersey-based card payment processor.

Gonzalez is awaiting trial in New York for allegedly helping hack the computer network of the national restaurant chain Dave and Buster's. Trial in that case is due to begin next month.

He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of the new charges.

The Justice Department said the new case represents the largest alleged credit and debit card data breach ever charged in the United States, beginning in October 2006.

Gonzalez allegedly devised a sophisticated attack to penetrate the computer networks, steal the card data, and send that data to computer servers in California, Illinois, Latvia, the Netherlands and Ukraine.

Also last year, the Justice Department announced additional charges against Gonzalez and others for hacking retail companies' computers for the theft of approximately 40 million credit cards. At the time, that was believed to be the biggest single case of hacking private computer networks to steal credit card data, puncturing the electronic defenses of retailers including Barnes & Noble, Sports Authority and OfficeMax.

At the time of those charges, officials said the alleged thieves weren't computer geniuses, just opportunists who used a technique called "wardriving," which involved cruising through different areas with a laptop computer and looking for accessible wireless Internet signals. Once they located a vulnerable network, they installed so-called "sniffer programs" that captured credit and debit card numbers as they moved through a retailer's processing networks.

Gonzalez faces a possible life sentence if convicted in that case.

Restaurants are among the most common targets for hackers, experts said, because they often fail to update their antivirus software and other computer security systems.
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O la la...... 130 miljoen credit card nummers. Dat zal het vertrouwen in plastic money geen goed doen.
Ik gebruik zelf ook een creditkaart. Maar zie absoluut nul reden om dat in een restaurant te doen Hoe geef je dan bijv. een tip?
People once tried to make Chuck Norris toilet paper. He said no because Chuck Norris takes crap from NOBODY!!!!
Megan Fox makes my balls look like vannilla ice cream.
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Op dinsdag 18 augustus 2009 13:42 schreef sitting_elfling het volgende:

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Ik gebruik zelf ook een creditkaart. Maar zie absoluut nul reden om dat in een restaurant te doen Hoe geef je dan bijv. een tip?
Dat zet je er specifiek bij, hoe groot de tip is.
The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.
pi_71984425
Die russen houden zich ook echt te veel bezig met obscure zaakjes hè? Zelfs op IRC werden mensen (ik) lastig gevallen met cc deals. 80 dollar voor 1000 cc nummers ofzo. Dat was dan bijna 10 jaar terug, wellicht dat de marktprijzen veranderd zijn. Al met al een flinke buit als je dat weet door te verkopen.
Ain't nothing to it but to do it.
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