posted on October 11, 2008 03:05:17 PM new
Today WSJ-
A security guard at a U.K. grocery store noticed suspicious static on his cell phone and alerted the authority.
It turns out that a credit card reader made in China has a bug on the back of a mother board which picks up cc data and send by a wireless connection to servers in Lahore,Pakistan.
It constantly changes the patern of the theft so it is hard to trace.
It will read the credit card data and store it in its own storage area and then wil call a number once a day to upload the information to server in Lahore ,Pakistan and await the next instruction of what to steal!
So far they have found hundreds of these machines in 5 European countries,in stores such as supermarkets ,one is owned by Walmart of Europe.
Scotland Yard and Master Card and different countries are investigating,since it is being uploaded to servers in Pakistan,they think Al Queda could be involved.
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Gulag-a Soviet era concentration camp is now reincarnated as EBAY with 13,000 rules.
posted on October 12, 2008 06:38:17 AM new
It is a rather sophisticated setup,it does not steal a lot and it is always changing its MO so it is hard to trace.
The stolen cc data is used to buy airplane tickets and make purchases on internet.
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Gulag-a Soviet era concentration camp is now reincarnated as EBAY with 13,000 rules.
