US and European Partners Take Down Hacker Website RaidForums (reuters.com) 6
U.S. and European authorities said on Tuesday they had seized RaidForums, a popular website used by hackers to buy and sell stolen data, and the United States also unsealed charges against the website's founder and chief administrator Diego Santos Coelho. From a report: Coelho, 21, of Portugal, was arrested in the United Kingdom on Jan. 31, and remains in custody while the United States seeks his extradition to stand trial in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, the U.S. Justice Department said. The department said it had obtained court approval to seize three different domain names that hosted the RaidForums website: raidforums.com, Rf.ws and Raid.lol. Among the types of data that were available for sale on the site included stolen bank routing and account numbers, credit card information, log-in credentials and social security numbers.
Gave me a frighten (Score:2)
SSN's? (Score:1)
Are social security numbers worth anything at all at this point? Pretty much every single one has been released publicly. They should be useless for any purpose (dream on, right?!).
I remember a time when ... (Score:3)
We (slashdot) used to respect the word hacker. Everyone knows that the trash magically disappears after it hits the curb and everyone knows that the cloud will always keep going and the nerds will be well-paid for it, so that's all that matters on those subjects. Do you ever wonder if the garbage man gets more respect than the I.T. guy? People are fighting over pronouns now and gender designations and, honestly, it is maddening to try to keep up and it might be crazy, but at least they're fighting for some respect.