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, May 16, 12:19:57