Police find 15, 400 Aussie credit cards on hacker forums

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By Darren Pauli
iTnews.com.au
April 30, 2012

International sting hits 36 underground sites.

More than 15,000 Australian credit cards worth an estimated $3.75 million 
in total were salvaged from underground hacker forums in a global police 
sting.

The cards were held across 36 carding websites that used automated vending 
carts to sell the accounts in large batches.

Law enforcement agencies including the Australia Federal Police, the FBI, 
and the Netherlands national police force investigated the sites and on 
Wednesday they pounced.

Two men were arrested on suspicion of making large-scale purchases of 
compromised data from the carding sites, while British anti-fraud police 
seized computers suspected of being involved in the fraud racket. One 
operator of an automated vending cart was arrested in Macedonia.

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