Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Black Market in Stolen Credit Card Data Thrives on Internet / New York Times, 21 Jun 2005

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/21/technology/21data.html?th&emc=th
Tom Zeller
"'Want drive fast cars?' asks an advertisement, in broken English, atop the Web site iaaca.com. 'Want live in premium hotels? Want own beautiful girls? It's possible with dumps from Zo0mer.' A 'dump,' in the blunt vernacular of a relentlessly flourishing online black market, is a credit card number. And what Zo0mer is peddling is stolen account information - name, billing address, phone - for Gold Visa cards and MasterCards at $100 apiece"