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Welsh Crackers got Bill Gates' credit card info



Being a bit of a Welsh Cracker myself (that is cracker in the Southern
white boy sense; Welsh as a Jones), I find this one particularly
interesting.
 
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2473689,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01

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   LONDON, -- A teenager arrested in Wales for allegedly hacking into
   e-commerce web sites had obtained the credit card details of Bill
   Gates, head of Microsoft and the world's richest man, newspapers said
   on Sunday.

   Raphael Gray, 18, was arrested on Saturday for Internet fraud after a
   joint operation between the FBI and Welsh Police.

   The FBI said on Saturday that losses connected to the activities of
   Gray and another unnamed 18-year-old could exceed $3 million.

   The 'Saint of E-commerce'

   But Gray, the self-styled "Saint of E-commerce," said: "I just wanted
   to prove how insecure these sites are. I have done the honest thing,
   but I have been ignored."

   Gray and his accomplice e-mailed credit card details, including those
   of Gates, to NBCi, a subsidiary of the NBC broadcasting group, the
   paper said.

   The 18-year-olds used the screen name "Curador" -- Welsh for custodian
   -- and allegedly hacked into nine e-commerce Web sites around the
   world, stealing credit card information related to more than 26,000
   accounts from web sites in the United States, Canada, Thailand, Japan
   and Britain

   Joint international effort

   The arrests stemmed from an FBI investigation conducted with the Welsh
   police, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Internet security
   consultants, the FBI said, adding that the international banking and
   credit card industry also provided substantial cooperation.

   The FBI was still investigating a wave of cyber attacks last month that
   disrupted some of the Internet's most popular sites.

   The FBI's own Web site was attacked on March 14, the same day the
   agency celebrated the 50th anniversary of its "Ten Most Wanted
   Fugitives" list, which is publicized on the site, FBI officials said.

   Gray and the other man were questioned and have been released on bail.

   
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