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Secure Science Corporation released a graph on their surveillance of a carding forum that stole a minimum of 21,000 credit/debit cards over the past 3 months. The graph highlights the top 10 financial institutions and the amount of loss. According the statute in the 9th circuit, each card is valued at $500.00 on average. This number conservatively states that one carding forum can cause over $10,500,000.00 in loss in 3 months.

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BusinessWeek has a story titled “Meet The Hackers” on some high profile Russian “hackers” who are behind the creation of spyware, credit card fraud, and spam, which all seem to go hand in hand as most of you may know. The article even gives out some websites used by these “hackers” which are still currently live, as they’re being host overseas on bulletproof servers.

You can find the BusinessWeek article with full details here.