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Saudi Arabian Hackers Leak Credit Card Details of 400,000 Israeli Citizens

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Re: Saudi Arabian Hackers Leak Credit Card Details of 400,000 Israeli Citizens

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Post by krembo »

My CC was in the list that the hackers published. Just canceled it...

Does anyone have good arguments against leaving the files where they are now and not deleting them from pastebin/megaupload/...? Since the beast is already out of it's cage, there is no point in chasing it. It is even better to let the public d/l the file and try to find themselves if their card and other details like emails, passwords were stolen.

Re: Saudi Arabian Hackers Leak Credit Card Details of 400,000 Israeli Citizens

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Post by Ohadr »

gokhan wrote: post #9
Ohadr wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I also have three of them... I think once that file was online even for a few minutes, the card numbers mentioned in it are not safe anymore. It will be leaked again. If it's not some kind of provocation (files with false data) then this is a pretty big crisis. I'm going to have to monitor my credit card logs closely in the next few weeks...

Which one is more safe? Letting it go so media picks it up, forcing people to renew their cards with less damage to end users or covering it and let the underground community sit on it, using random cards time to time from an endless stash?

As a possible victim I prefer spreading the list as quickly as possible. All major commerce sites and payment companies will take note of this and stop accepting these card accounts.

Obviously it will still be a huge hassle to reissue all those cards but it will minimize the financial damage.

Re: Saudi Arabian Hackers Leak Credit Card Details of 400,000 Israeli Citizens

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Post by yuvadam »

I just gave a talk last week at 28C3 [1,2] about how all the personal details of Israeli citizens are up for grabs for anyone inclined enough to get them.

I'm ashamed to see that we've learned nothing in the past 10 years.

[1] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow7cvZOzp6w

[2] - http://speakerdeck.com/u/yuvadm/p/28c3-data-mining-the-israe...

EDIT: Israeli media now claims that 400K is an exaggerated number, and the actual number of leaked CC is much smaller.

EDIT2: I'm gonna go ahead and publish a mirror list [3] for the leaked data and for affected accounts by email [4]. I might be affected and I prefer to know if I am ASAP, even if this means the data leaks more, which it will anyway.

[3] - http://pastebay.com/186092

[4] - http://pastebin.com/EnY7E0Hw

Re: Saudi Arabian Hackers Leak Credit Card Details of 400,000 Israeli Citizens

#16

Post by darklajid »

krembo wrote: post #12

My CC was in the list that the hackers published. Just canceled it... Does anyone have good arguments against leaving the files where they are now and not deleting them from pastebin/megaupload/...? Since the beast is already out of it's cage, there is no point in chasing it. It is even better to let the public d/l the file and try to find themselves if their card and other details like emails, passwords were stolen.

Do you have any idea where your card was leaked from? Can you share what card provider you used? I was already paranoid about credit cards before I came, now it's really affecting my blood pressure..

(nice username btw, learned the word here..)

Re: Saudi Arabian Hackers Leak Credit Card Details of 400,000 Israeli Citizens

#17

Post by krembo »

darklajid wrote: post #16
krembo wrote: post #12

My CC was in the list that the hackers published. Just canceled it... Does anyone have good arguments against leaving the files where they are now and not deleting them from pastebin/megaupload/...? Since the beast is already out of it's cage, there is no point in chasing it. It is even better to let the public d/l the file and try to find themselves if their card and other details like emails, passwords were stolen.

Do you have any idea where your card was leaked from? Can you share what card provider you used? I was already paranoid about credit cards before I came, now it's really affecting my blood pressure.. (nice username btw, learned the word here..)

I'm not sure if they stole it directly from the sites (coupon site in my case) or from the clearance company. In any case it seems that the site who store the details broke the law by storing the CVV (not to mention that passwords were not encrypted..)

Re: Saudi Arabian Hackers Leak Credit Card Details of 400,000 Israeli Citizens

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Post by cabalamat »

Ohadr wrote: post #7
darklajid wrote: post #6

I have an israeli credit card. I'd have liked to understand where this was leaked from. And - well - make sure that mine is not among them. Unfortunately (or fortunately?) the file isn't available any more.

I also have three of them... I think once that file was online even for a few minutes, the card numbers mentioned in it are not safe anymore. It will be leaked again. If it's not some kind of provocation (files with false data) then this is a pretty big crisis. I'm going to have to monitor my credit card logs closely in the next few weeks...

If it is false data, won't the credit card companies say so loudly?
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