[ISN] Alleged Carder ‘BadB’ Busted in France — Watch His Cartoon

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:08:37 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/08/badb/

By Kim Zetter 
Threat Level
Wired.com
August 11, 2010

An alleged old-timer in the international carding community and one of 
the top sellers of stolen bank card data has been arrested in France, 
and faces extradition to the United States on an indictment unsealed 
Wednesday in Washington, D.C.

Vladislav Anatolievich Horohorin, 27, aka BadB, holds dual-citizenship 
in Ukraine and Israel and was one of the earliest members of 
CarderPlanet, a first of its kind Russian-language carding forum that 
was launched around 2002 by a group of East Europeans. CarderPlanet was 
shuttered in 2004, and BadB had more recently been selling his stolen 
goods at carder.su and on his own websites, dumps.name and badb.biz, 
where he promoted his product in lighthearted Flash cartoons like the 
one above.

Authorities say the network created by Horohorin and other CarderPlanet 
veterans is linked to “nearly every major intrusion of financial 
information reported to the international law enforcement community.”

According to the indictment, Horohorin bragged online that he was one of 
the biggest sellers of “dumps” (account and other data stored on a bank 
card’s magnetic stripe) and had been a card seller for about eight 
years. Undercover agents from the U.S. Secret Service negotiated 
purchases of stolen data from him and worked with French authorities to 
arrest him.

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