Check out this NY Times story. Truly amazing.
Sure, we all remember hearing about the arrest of an identity thief in Florida who had stolen hundreds of thousands, or perhaps millions of credit cards by sitting outside big box stores and snooping the WiFi networks. But who knew that the culprit had been arrested previously, and even worked for a number of years for the Secret Service training agents and helping to orchestrate one of the biggest cyber-sting operations ever. I had no idea that his team was international, and that they had infiltrated networks to such a degree that they were stealing credit card details right before the transactions were processedin other words, at the point of sale, while the information was still valid.
How widespread their efforts were is not yet, and may never be known. Getting ever more ambitious, they eventually went after the credit card processors themselves, effectively infiltrating Heartland Payment Processor.
Wow!
Sure, we all remember hearing about the arrest of an identity thief in Florida who had stolen hundreds of thousands, or perhaps millions of credit cards by sitting outside big box stores and snooping the WiFi networks. But who knew that the culprit had been arrested previously, and even worked for a number of years for the Secret Service training agents and helping to orchestrate one of the biggest cyber-sting operations ever. I had no idea that his team was international, and that they had infiltrated networks to such a degree that they were stealing credit card details right before the transactions were processedin other words, at the point of sale, while the information was still valid.
How widespread their efforts were is not yet, and may never be known. Getting ever more ambitious, they eventually went after the credit card processors themselves, effectively infiltrating Heartland Payment Processor.
Wow!
