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. [...] -- Visit InfoSec News! http://www.infosecnews.org/Received on Thu Aug 12 2010 - 00:08:37 PDT
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