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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 jacquesm »

teyc wrote: post #22

Don't VISA et al require some kind of PCI compliance for storing credit card details?

PCI compliance is worth as much as the party that signs off on you being compliant, in most cases that is you.

Audits are few and far between, lots of places have shoddy security but claim they are Fort Knox.

PCI compliancy is quite meaningless unless the people that implement it take their job seriously. That's very frequently not the case, it is just seen as a small obstacle in the way of doing business.

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

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Post by guscost »

Ohadr wrote: post #27

Anonymous just declared that they are not responsible for this: https://twitter.com/anonyops/status/153969476277248000 "We have no love for Israeli gov't but targeting 1000s for being Israeli? Sorry, you are not #Anonymous pastebay.com/148920"

Can we just start calling these folks "Anonymous USA" to avoid naming something important with a term that anyone else on the planet can alter at will? Is there really any logic in choosing a brand that is interchangeable with the phrase "anyone on earth"?

Wouldn't that seem to suggest that staying completely anonymous while being taken seriously on the Internet is impossible?

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

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Post by jonhendry »

Ohadr wrote: post #27

Anonymous just declared that they are not responsible for this: https://twitter.com/anonyops/status/153969476277248000 "We have no love for Israeli gov't but targeting 1000s for being Israeli? Sorry, you are not #Anonymous pastebay.com/148920"

Splitters!

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

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Post by pjscott »

waffle_ss wrote: post #26

I have a very hard time resolving how this type of attack could fall under the umbrella of Anonymous. Saudis specifically attacking Israel implies a nationalistic attitude, given their history. They also affiliate their hacker group with Wahabbism, which is a strict branch of Islam that most would brand as fundamentalist (and sometimes extreme). I can't really see the ideals of Anonymous coexisting with nationalism a…

It's inspired by the Anonymous style: find someone you dislike, attack their computers somehow (e.g. private information theft, DDoS, web site defacing), and brag about it online. The ideals are very different, but the method is pretty similar.

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

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Post by noduerme »

From what I can see, the real Anonymous at least has the balls to go after their own government. Sure it's easy to hate on Israel, and these douchebags will no doubt get some props from fellow haters for their little hack, but if they had a pair of testicles between the lot of 'em, they'd start leaking info on the dictatorship they live in, rather than stealing credit cards from the democracy next door.

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

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Post by asjd »

This is the IP of the hacker: 188.75.86.66 (It's possible this is a bounce server, but geo locating it suggests against this.)

I know because I was involved in cleaning up one of the hacks. (I have to stay anonymous, but my main account has more than 7000 karma.)

In the one I dealt with they did not copy stored cards (because they couldn't), but rather added extra code that would email a copy of the details to the hacker as the order was placed.

(So even with PCI compliance credit card numbers can still be stolen.)

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