Cracker Gains Access to 2.2 Million Credit Cards

Doctor Sbaitso writes "CNN reports that a hacker bypassed the security system of a company that processes credit card transactions and gained access to approximately 2.2 million Visa and MasterCard credit cards. Fortunately, none of them seem to have been used fraudulently."

CC# generators.

[laymil]

pfft, back in my day, we could generate as many valid credit card numbers as we wanted. of course, those usually got used fraudulently....

What?

[batboy78]

Damn white boys need to stay away from them computers!!

Crackers

[harks]

I dont like the use of racial slurs like that on /.

hmmm

[Fermicirrus]

I bet this "hacker" at least bought some candy with those cards...mabye like a snickers or something?

Slashdot Ads

[absurdhero]

So THATs why $5 was paid to Slashdot without me remembering!

Kewl

[Anonymous Coward]

damn kevin mitnick!

Clearly

[Doctor Sbaitso]

This is a great security threat for our nation! Just think of all the plastic explosives terrorists could create with 2.2 million credit cards!

in the news tomorrow?

[Anonymous Coward]

I guess tomorrow all the online pr0n stores will be sold out of everything!

Thus Far

[rela]

You mean 'none of them seem to have been used fradulently YET'

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Re:Is there a name?

[billstr78]

I heard on TV that they have contacted the issuing banks. I am going to call tomorrow and find out if mine was hijacked, then if I can get these charges to CompUSA removed

Mitnick...

[jbwiv]

New leaf my ass. Welcome back, Kevin ;-)

Re:Clearly

[TopShelf]

Either that, or they plan on cornering the duck tape & plastic sheeting market...

Obligatory correction on "[ch]racker"

[Anonymous Coward]

The correct term is GNU/hacker and GNU/cracker. btw, let's use the term chracker from now on for clarity, please.

To bad...

[95_gst_al]

Yeah he gained access to 2.2 million cards, but to bad they are all probably overdrawn! Just about everybody I know complains that their cards are maxed out. :D I also agree, that out of 2.2 million cards, it's impossible for them to know that all of them are ok and haven't been used.

"Cracker Gains Access to 2.2 PIN NUMBERS"

[tha_mink]

You get the idea.

Re:hmmm

[PetWolverine]

Or maybe he bought some cheese to go with his crackers.

Re:Mitnick...

[cyb97]

I guess this explains why 'the art of deception' sold 2.2M copies so fast...

Re:Go away, Negro.

[batboy78]

obviously the humor in the use of the word "cracker" in the article title was lost.

Re:I think not.

[Anonymous Coward]

And how exactly do they know that all 2.2 million credit card #'s haven't been used fraudulently? I'm sure that there are at least a small percent of any given set of 2.2 million credit card #'s that are used fraudulently.

Perhaps the cracker was an angel and made sure all these accounts were blessed against fraud.

Re:this report says 5 million cards

[MeanMF]

this report says 5 million cards

Some of them were gold and platinum cards, so you have to count them more than once [slashdot.org].

grain of salt

[newsdee]

After that story with the RIAA claims about number of seized CD burners, I'm seriously wondering whether this "dangerous cracker" is not in fact some script kiddie who stumbled upon a computer that stored 275,000 CC#s, and the data is mirrored in 7 other computers... ;-)

Re:CC# generators.

[Chester K]

pfft, back in my day, we could generate as many valid credit card numbers as we wanted. of course, those usually got used fraudulently....

Pfff... I could even make them by hand, before they started cracking down on correlating expiration date to card number. Ended up having a nice interesting talk with the FBI about that a couple years later, unfortunately.

Would Be More Interesting If ...

[handy_vandal]

This story would be more interesting if every last one of the stolen credit card numbers had been used fraudulently. Now that would be an exploit!

In other news...

[mrselfdestrukt]

500 kg of explosives have been stolen from the police evidence warehouse, but none has exploded yet so there's no danger.
And crackers and other salty biscuits are making plans to take over the world.

Re:I bet I know

[AntiNorm]

Somebody collected 2.2 million AOL disks (not hard to do), and needed CC's to activate them all.

Most of the AOL CDs (no apostrophe in a pluralized acronym) I have seen lately state pretty loudly on the packaging that a CC is no longer required for activation of the trial account.

It's not fraudulent!

[Tuxinatorium]

This whole thing is part of George W. Bush's new economic stimulus plan! Give everyone's credit card to some millionaire's son, and he spends it all on cars, porn, liquor, etc., and bit by bit the whole economy will recover!

Re:Whew!

[civilizedINTENSITY]

Hacking cash is called "counterfeiting". Its way old school. ;-)

New commercial

[Stonent1]

Online Viagra purchase: $150
Trisexual Midget porn : $55
Buying it on someone elses credit card so that your wife never finds out: Priceless
There's somet things that money can buy but you'd rather it not be your own. For everything else, there's Mastercard.

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Re:It's probably a matter of time...

[Anonymous Coward]

Mine was stolen, but the thief's using it less than the wife did.

ba-dum ching!

Re:Is there a name?

[isorox]

I am going to call tomorrow and find out if mine was hijacked

Being a good citizen, I'll do it for you

Everyone email their credit card details to me, [e-mail], and I'll check them against my list of stolen numbers