{"id":446,"date":"2012-04-02T10:47:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T17:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/?p=446"},"modified":"2019-04-20T16:25:36","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T16:25:36","slug":"global-payments-inc-anatomy-of-stolen-credit-card-number-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/?p=446","title":{"rendered":"Global Payments Inc &#8211; Anatomy of stolen credit card number use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[Can just a credit card number, name and CVV be enough to cause damage?\u00a0 Global Payments Inc., the credit-card processor of the recent Friday March 30, 2012, significant security breach\u00a0 said that hackers stole account numbers up to 1.5 million North American accounts.\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Credit Card Theft\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ehowcdn.com\/article-new\/ehow\/images\/a05\/r6\/01\/common-credit-card-fraud_-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"144\" \/>\nCredit card crime occurs in three parts: reconnaissance, theft, and dump.\u00a0 When a carder (credit card # thief) obtains the numbers and names to a card they can obtain the victims&#8217; addresses and telephone numbers from information clearinghouses such as Consumer Info, Choice Point, or Lexus-Nexus.\u00a0 From there, the carder most often trades the numbers, names, and pertinent info anonymously through Internet Relay Chat (IRC) or website forums to other cyber criminals.\nThose cyber criminals may use magnetic card writers to create fake swipe cards.\u00a0 The fake swipe cards are then tested at unmanned grocery store checkout lines or with online merchants leaving a small &#8220;footprint.&#8221;\u00a0 Once the card proves exploitable &#8211; the larger bulk theft may take years.\nClick the below link for a primer of how hackers profit from their exploits\n<a title=\"primer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/csa\/026CARDING1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/csa\/026CARDING1.pdf<\/a>]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[66,63,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaches","category-education","category-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8166,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/8166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}