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International Hackers Indicted for Sniffing Credit Cards from Dave & Buster’s
By David Kravets
Wired: May 12, 2008

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/05/international-h.html

Three international hackers have been indicted for allegedly  using “college-level knowledge of computer programming skills” to steal and sell credit card numbers…One of the men arrested, Maksym Yastremskiy, of Ukraine, was found in possession of millions of stolen credit card numbers…The case is the latest in a string of retail capers in which hackers burrowed into a company’s network to intercept credit card transactions in real time. A similar attack, on a larger scale, played out at shoe retailer DSW in 2005, compromising  1.4 million customer records. And a prolonged infiltration of retail giant T.J. Maxx revealed last year exposed at least 45 million customers…An arrest warrant describes the sniffer program as “efficient, well designed, and uses some algorithms and data structures that reflect college-level knowledge of computer programming skills, whether acquired through self-study … or formal training.”