Cybercrime Untouchables?
Summary: A Krebs on Security post revisits a 2006 New York Times story that named Sergey Kozerev, aka Zo0mer, a St. Petersburg-based kingpin of stolen identity and credit card data, and reports that nearly four years later he still runs a busy carding marketplace selling card dumps, stolen card numbers and security codes for about $1 each, and lookups of Social Security numbers for roughly $4. The post notes that in September Viktor Pleshchuk, one of the masterminds behind the $9 million RBS WorldPay hack in 2008, received a six-year-suspended sentence after pleading guilty.
Why it matters: A fraud shop still openly advertising stolen card data at $1 to $4 per record nearly four years after being named in the New York Times shows how little consequence follows in the jurisdictions where these sellers operate, and the suspended sentence handed to the RBS WorldPay hacker reinforces it.
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