Online Market: Stolen Credit Cards/Identity Theft

This is a pretty interesting story about how some merchants are actually selling stolen CC numbers etc. online. Since the thieves hack into ecommerce sites, then sell the stolen lists of numbers, I guess the moral of the story might be to use one of your CC's that has a low limit for your online purchases.


You will need to cut and paste the link into your browser window since it is so long.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=68&ncid=68&e=2&u=/nyt/20020513/ts_nyt/credit_card_theft_thrives_online_as_global_market_ losses_grow