Tag Archives: mastercard

Big Scores and Hi-Scores

March 23, 2011

Business gurus have long maintained that time = $, but that doesn’t mean playtime necessarily detracts from the bottom line. As many corporations have discovered, employees tend to be more productive when they have time to give their brains a break, and gameplay is the perfect escape. So it’s not surprising that some cyber criminals have taken this lesson to heart, and are crafting crime machines to include games that allow them to steal money and set hi-scores at the same time.

I’ll Take 2 MasterCards and a Visa, Please

September 22, 2010

When you’re shopping for stolen credit and debit cards online, there are so many choices these days. A glut of stolen data — combined with innovation and cutthroat competition among vendors — is conspiring to keep prices for stolen account numbers exceptionally low. Even so, many readers probably have no idea that their credit card information is worth only about $1.50 on the black market.

Police Arrest 178 in U.S.-Europe Raid on Credit Card ‘Cloning Labs’

June 15, 2010

Police have arrested 178 people in Europe and the United States suspected of cloning credit cards in an international scam worth over 20 million euro ($24.52 million), according to a report from Reuters.

The stories so far are all light on details or whether this bust was connected to specific fraud forums that facilitate the trade in stolen credit card data, but the wire reports include the following information: