VISA & Mastercard Hacked

by wwwhizz • 14 years ago

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kapitalx2• 14 years ago

Looks very suspicious. For one, why are the visa and mastercard data interleaved? Why isn't there more rows released. Why the hell are there email addresses? Why not leave the last 4 digits of the credit card numbers? and many many more questions like that!

I doubt the validity of this.

Edit: On his twitter account he mentions that its data through a bank and not the credit card companies themselves.

eclark• 14 years ago

https://twitter.com/Reckz0r/status/214820211625426944

Looks like it's the banks and not Visa/Mastercard themselves.

tbeseda• 14 years ago

There's no way the data source is either Visa or Mastercard. Each row, which there are less than 2000 of, is non-standard (lower case, varying abbreviations of Street/Lane/etc., partial and full zip codes, varying phone number formats).

Likely a dump of a poorly secured online retailer.

Nothing to see here, move along.

sosuke• 14 years ago

I feel bad for @Reck0r on Twitter, who Reckz0r or Reckz, or Jeremy linked to in the bottom of this paste. He or she obviously meant @Reckz0r https://twitter.com/#!/Reckz0r

alpb• 14 years ago

A little bit out of the topic but drew my attention: Looks like hackers love to quote from Albert Einstein and write their names instead of Einstein's.

fgielow• 14 years ago

http://kevtownsend.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/reckz0r-hacks-ma...

Interesting to consider. But I do not know much regarding this topic, I am just leaving that link because it is directly related :P

edit.: Anyways, I downloaded that file and it was really just plain texts, nothing to worry about. But seemed suspicious anyway. Why are there email addresses?

kapitalx2• 14 years ago

"Do you really want to download an unknown file from a Bieber Hacker?" - oh well!!

gee_totes• 14 years ago

Another directly related link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamer

timaelliott• 14 years ago

So we're to believe that he can hack VISA & Mastercard but cannot consistently format a text file and uses double \r\n line delimiters?

Alarm bells are ringing, Willie.

lowglow• 14 years ago

The cc#s/exp/CVC/CVC2 might have been encrypted which is why they aren't included. I doubt this is even from a bank.

dustinchilson• 14 years ago

per PCI & PA-DSS standards CVC and CVC2 cannot be stored.

politician• 14 years ago

There are plenty of companies who don't know that, or haven't been audited yet. When they are audited, they can be out of compliance for months before anything final is done.

yuvadam• 14 years ago

Interesting. This data shows up on a Palestinian "hacker" forum [1] on a post dated June 5th.

[1] http://gaza-hacker.net/cc/showthread-t_38196.html

newobj• 14 years ago

Reckz0r's tweets say "I just tweeted Reid Hoffman's VISA credit card information, then I had the thought that i'd get suspended..so...nevermind, folks."

From the link above:

"Reed Hofmann..."

Close but no cigar :^P

rit• 14 years ago

I think someone is mistaking the whole "Hacker News" title, here.

VISA & Mastercard Hacked

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