Who’s Selling Credit Cards from Target?
Summary: Krebs on Security traced the operator of the card-shop rescator.la, which sold cards stolen in the Target breach, to a Ukrainian man named Andrey Hodirevski from Odessa, linking the Rescator handle to the former Darklife forum administrator 'Helkern' through shared ICQ, email, Skype and photo evidence. When Krebs sought comment, someone at kaddafi.me offered him $10,000 not to publish the story, which he declined.
Bottom line: The seller of Target's stolen cards was moving as many as 50,000 cards a day, according to the carding forums cited, and a commenter notes fraud often isn't attempted until 6-12 months after a compromise - so a quiet statement is not evidence that a card was never exposed.
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