When Undercover Credit Card Buys Go Bad
Summary: A law enforcement source investigating cybercrime tried to make undercover buys of stolen credit cards from the carding shop Rescator, and the site's checkout page replaced his transaction with a "pig detected" alert flagging him as an officer. Rescator, the same shop that first sold millions of cards stolen in the Target and Home Depot breaches, seized his account and bitcoin balance after the alert.
What's compelling: Rescator is estimated to have sold between 1 and 3 million of the 40 million card numbers taken from Target, generating more than $50 million at a median price of $26.85 per card - revenue that funds the detection systems now turning away the investigators trying to trace breaches back to their source.
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