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A Tough Month for Carders :-)

March 27th, 2010 • Related • Filed Under

I don’t much care to write about this stuff but it was an exceptional past two weeks in Carder/Hacker news. Too bad the banks can’t just fix their 50 year old, out dated, prehistoric plastic. If people used digital currency like Webmoney or GoldMoney there would be no stupid carders.

TJX Hacker Gets 20 Years in Prison

Convicted TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursday for leading a gang of cyberthieves who stole more than 90 million credit and debit card numbers from TJX and other retailers…..Gonzalez’s crimes were committed mostly between 2005 and 2008 while he was drawing a $75,000 salary working for the U.S. Secret Service as a paid undercover informant.

The stolen magstripe data was routed to servers Gonzalez leased in Latvia and Ukraine, and ultimately passed to master Ukrainian card seller Maksym “Maksik” Yastremskiy, who peddled them to other carders in the underground…Maksik’s customers programmed the magstripe data onto counterfeit credit cards. …Yastremskiy, whom authorities say earned $11 million from card sales, was captured in Turkey in 2007 while on vacation and was sentenced in 2009 to 30 years in prison by a Turkish court. U.S. authorities seized a treasure trove of data from his computer that helped build a case against Gonzalez.

Russia arrests WorldPay hackers after FBI plea

By John E. Dunn | Techworld
Published: 11:27 GMT, 22 March 10

Three men accused of being involved an audacious attack on US ATM machines in 2008 have been arrested by the feared Russian Security Service (FSB) in an event that is being interpreted as marking a sea change in Russian policy towards cybercrime….The Financial Times reports that the FSB arrested the alleged Russian mastermind of the attack, Viktor Pleshchuk, and two alleged accomplices, Sergei Tsurikov and Oleg Covelin, all believed by the FBI to be involved in the high-profile $9 million (£6 million) raid on a US-based ATM system run by RBS WorldPay, a subsidiary of the Royal Bank of Scotland….The attack is said to have allowed the attackers to use cloned payroll cards to steal the money from 2,100 cash machines across the US in a 12-hour period in November 2008 after the gang cracked the encryption used to protect cards from tampering.

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