
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/08/06/business/NA-US-Retailer-Fraud-Indictment.php
11 charged in connection with credit card fraud
Eleven people, including a U.S. Secret Service informant, have been charged in connection with the hacking of nine major retailers and the theft and sale of more than 41 million credit and debit card numbers, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.
the alleged thieves weren't computer geniuses, just opportunists who used a technique called "wardriving," which involved cruising through different areas with a laptop 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.
That was easy. Perhaps a person should invest in a monthly identity theft monitor. How has technology changed the face of crime?
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