An underground credit card clearing house has itself been hacked, an investigation by Trend Micro has confirmed. The operation - a holding firm for anonymous payment service Fethard - processes credit card payments for a rogue's gallery of fake anti-virus (scareware) suppliers, spam-promoted unlicensed pharmaceutical and …

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Monday 16th August 2010 11:26 GMT Jelliphiish

oh course it worked..

criminals have no law to observe and no due process.. and they can think for themselves..

unlike the law/order types..

also.. Feike Hacquebord.. made up name.. my minimal linguistics skills pronounce it as fake hackboard..

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Monday 16th August 2010 11:27 GMT TeeCee

How does that work?

"....also puts the personal data of legitimate customers and of many ordinary Russians at risk."

Er, their details were already on file with a bent card processor. In exactly what way were they not already pwned?

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Monday 16th August 2010 11:27 GMT Anonymous Coward

Made up name?

"Trend Micro researcher Feike Hacquebord "

Fake Hack Board - who the hell is he/she kidding?

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1. Monday 16th August 2010 14:09 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Nah, just Dutch.
  
  http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/+/hacquebord/
  
  My favourite is 'Heero Hacquebord'.
  
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Monday 16th August 2010 13:26 GMT mike2R

A Møøse once bit my sister

Those responsible for hacking the people who have just been hacked have been hacked.

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