This is actually quite scary

"Some British victims of card fraud who later suffered from police mistakes in Operation Ore believe their troubles began after they bought bicycle parts –or even a honeymoon hotel stay-over the internet or on the phone from the US. Hackers who broke into insecure trading sites stole vast quantities of personal credit card data to use for fake porn site sign-ups, Hidden away on Landslide's computers were 54,348 sets of stolen credit card information, including information on dozens of UK residents. The data appeared to have been stolen en masse from a Florida based luxury goods company, in the form of Microsoft Access databases of its complete customer records. Some of the stolen cards were later used to pay for porn websites operated by Landslide. The company whose customer data was stolen, Levenger Inc of Delray Beach, Florida, has declined to comment."

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I've bought plenty of stuff from the US, mostly fishing gear, some books (got an English first edition Harry Potter from a bookshop in California through Abe Books!), some boat stuff. I bloody hope the retailers have a decent security system, after reading that lot.

Posted By: Old Git on May 16th 2008 at 12:19:57

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141 Stupid Barries downloaded yesterday. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, May 16, 11:48:40
- What's a stupid barrie? Linkage? (n/m) (General Chat) - Poomers Gorn Hoiper, May 16, 12:22:45
  - Stupid Barry (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, May 16, 12:29:31
- It's a legend (General Chat) - Old Git, May 16, 11:50:51
  - Bristol (n/m) (General Chat) - blindasabat, May 16, 11:52:51
  - That was Pete Townsend's defence (n/m) (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, May 16, 11:52:29
    - actually it wasn't (General Chat) - blindasabat, May 16, 12:00:44
      - lovely old facts, a bit like 3D from massive attack (General Chat) - pants, May 16, 12:05:12
        
        here's the article about it in the Guardian (General Chat) - blindasabat, May 16, 12:06:09
        
        Around the time, from what I gathered, 3D bought a cd from a website (General Chat) - pants, May 16, 12:11:29
        
        badly worded (General Chat) - pants, May 16, 12:12:26
        
        indeed 3D was 'caught' in exactly the same police operation as Townshend (General Chat) - blindasabat, May 16, 12:16:40
        
        This is actually quite scary (General Chat) - Old Git, May 16, 12:19:57
        
        about 4 years ago I switched banks, and then I signed up to a solo card (General Chat) - pants, May 16, 12:23:48
        
        Your card company should see you right... (General Chat) - Poomers Gorn Hoiper, May 16, 12:22:29
        
        I pick up the odd crooked entry from time to time (General Chat) - Old Git, May 16, 12:28:48
        
        Moreover, it's not just a retailers electronic security you have to worry about. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, May 16, 12:35:21
        
        So should one really not buy stuff over the net? (General Chat) - Old Git, May 16, 12:48:08
        
        I wouldn't go that far. The larger outfits are much less at risk of that sort of thing (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, May 16, 13:07:34
        
        less risky than using it 'for real' in some places (General Chat) - megson, May 16, 12:52:32
        
        I dunno either (General Chat) - pants, May 16, 12:52:13
        
        "fool" (n/m) (General Chat) - mike_the_sphinx, May 16, 12:56:49
        
        Top Tip: avoid Buttfuck, Alabama (n/m) (General Chat) - Poomers Gorn Hoiper, May 16, 12:36:33
    - Got me (General Chat) - Old Git, May 16, 11:57:21
    - Rolfs. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, May 16, 11:54:11
    - ha ha (n/m) (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, May 16, 11:53:10
- Guilty as charged (n/m) (General Chat) - King, May 16, 11:49:47

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