-=PCTechTalk=- Re: IMPORTANT NOTE IF YOU HAVE/USE CREDIT CARD(S)!!!!!!!

  • From: "ml" <my2punkin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:16:36 -0700

I tried.. it didn't work
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Southerland" <larrysoutherland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 8:24 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: IMPORTANT NOTE IF YOU HAVE/USE CREDIT 
CARD(S)!!!!!!!


> Try cutting and pasting the parts of the URLs into your browser
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> http://www.walletpop.com/credit/article/albert-gonzalez-charged-with-
> theft-of/625932
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of ml
> Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 11:21 AM
> To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: IMPORTANT NOTE IF YOU HAVE/USE CREDIT
> CARD(S)!!!!!!!
>
> wellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll... I didn't find a complete link on the
> whole page. Maybe it's the way it was received?  Sometimes things get 
> messed
>
> up in the transporting.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Larry Southerland" <larrysoutherland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <the_bullhorn2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <thebullhornsbest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 8:36 PM
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- IMPORTANT NOTE IF YOU HAVE/USE CREDIT 
> CARD(S)!!!!!!!
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>> Feds Bust Biggest Identity Theft Ring
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>> WASHINGTON (Aug. 17) - Federal prosecutors on Monday charged a Miami man
>> with the largest case of credit and debit card data theft ever in the
>> United
>> States, accusing the one-time government informant of swiping 130 million
>> accounts on top of 40 million he stole previously.
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>> On Aug. 17, federal investigators announced what is said to be the 
>> largest
>> identity theft ring in U.S. history. Thieves targeted more than 130
>> million
>> credit and debit card numbers used at 7-Eleven stores, supermarket chain
>> Hannaford Brothers and those processed by Heartland Payment Systems.
>> Heartland, coincidentally, suffered another major breach just last year.
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>> Top Data Breaches
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>> On Aug. 17, federal investigators announced what is said to be the 
>> largest
>> identity theft ring in U.S. history. Thieves targeted more than 130
>> million
>> credit and debit card numbers used at 7-Eleven stores, supermarket chain
>> Hannaford Brothers and those processed by Heartland Payment Systems.
>> Heartland, coincidentally, suffered another major breach just last year.
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>> Scott Barbour, Getty Images
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>> Top Data Breaches
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>> On Aug. 17, federal investigators announced what is said to be the 
>> largest
>> identity theft ring in U.S. history. Thieves targeted more than 130
>> million
>> credit and debit card numbers used at 7-Eleven stores, supermarket chain
>> Hannaford Brothers and those processed by Heartland Payment Systems.
>> Heartland, coincidentally, suffered another major breach just last year.
>>
>> Scott Barbour, Getty Images
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>> The Checkfree attack announced in January 2009 exposed 5 million records
>> and
>> came at the hand, apparently, of Ukrainian hackers.
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>> Checkfree Corp. / Fiserv
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>> The data breach at the Bank of New York Mellon Shareowner Services
>> involved
>> 12.5 million records and was the top breach in 2008.
>>
>> BNY Mellon Shareowner Services
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>> Hannaford Bros. Supermarkets had a computer system breach that exposed 
>> 4.2
>> million records in 2008, the second-highest tally of the year.
>>
>> Stephan Savoia, AP
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>> The data breach at Countrywide in 2008 was only the fifth largest of the
>> year, with 2 million records exposed, but the company has had such bad
>> headlines in recent times that the bad news only hit harder.
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>> Richard A. Brooks, AFP / Getty Images
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>> Albert Gonzalez, 28, broke his own record for identity theft by hacking
>> into
>> retail networks, according to prosecutors, though they say his illicit
>> computer exploits ended when he went to jail on charges stemming from an
>> earlier case.
>>
>> Gonzalez is a former informant for the U.S. Secret Service who helped the
>> agency hunt hackers, authorities say. The agency later found out that he
>> had
>> also been working with criminals and feeding them information on ongoing
>> investigations, even warning off at least one individual, according to
>> authorities.
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>> Gonzalez, who is already in jail awaiting trial in a hacking case, was
>> indicted Monday in New Jersey and charged with conspiring with two other
>> unnamed suspects to steal the private information. Prosecutors say the
>> goal
>> was to sell the stolen data to others.
>>
>> How much of the data was sold and then used to make fraudulent charges is
>> unclear. Investigators in such cases say it is usually impossible to
>> quantify the impact of such thefts on account holders.
>>
>> Prosecutors say Gonzalez, who is known online as "soupnazi," targeted
>> customers of convenience store giant 7-Eleven Inc. and supermarket chain
>> Hannaford Brothers, Co. Inc. He also targeted Heartland Payment Systems, 
>> a
>> New Jersey-based card payment processor.
>>
>> According to the indictment, Gonazalez and his two Russian coconspirators
>> would hack into corporate computer networks and secretly place "malware,"
>> or
>> malicious software, that would allow them backdoor access to the networks
>> later to steal data.
>>
>> Gonzalez faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of the new charges.
>> His
>> lawyer did not immediately return a call for comment.
>>
>> Gonzalez is awaiting trial next month in New York for allegedly helping
>> hack
>> the computer network of the national restaurant chain Dave and Buster's.
>>
>> The Justice Department said the new case represents the largest alleged
>> credit and debit card data breach ever charged in the United States, 
>> based
>> on a scheme that began in October 2006.
>>
>> Gonzalez allegedly devised a sophisticated attack to penetrate the
>> computer
>> networks, steal the card data, and send that data to computer servers in
>> California, Illinois, Latvia, the Netherlands and Ukraine.
>>
>> Also last year, the Justice Department announced additional charges
>> against
>> Gonzalez and others for hacking retail companies' computers for the theft
>> of
>> approximately 40 million credit cards. At the time, that was believed to
>> be
>> the biggest single case of hacking private computer networks to steal
>> credit
>> card data, puncturing the electronic defenses of retailers including T.J.
>> Maxx, Barnes & Noble, Sports Authority and OfficeMax.
>>
>> Prosecutors charge Gonzalez was the ringleader of the hackers in that
>> case.
>>
>> At the time of those charges, officials said the alleged thieves weren't
>> computer geniuses, just opportunists who used a technique called
>> "wardriving," which involved cruising through different areas with a
>> laptop
>> computer 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.
>>
>> Gonzalez faces a possible life sentence if convicted in that case.
>>
>> Restaurants are among the most common targets for hackers, experts said,
>> because they often fail to update their antivirus software and other
>> computer security systems.
>>
>> Scott Christie, a former federal prosecutor now in private practice in 
>> New
>> Jersey, said the case shows that despite the best efforts by companies to
>> protect data privacy, there are still individuals capable of sneaking in.
>>
>> "Cases like this do cause companies to sit up and take notice that this 
>> is
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>> a
>> problem and more needs to be done," said Christie.
>>
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