Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box

Chapter 7: dis-card

Overview

by Mark Burnett

 yo you there? yep can you check out a site for me? ya, what's the url? wait i need to find it again  

Temor is a good buddy, and I can trust him. He isn t really a hacker; he is a businessman. Our method is pretty straightforward: He finds the sites, and I break in, grab the credit card database, and place it on a drop site. He sells the database, and we both make money.

As for me, I m a hacker. But you ll never read about me defacing the Navy s Web site or taking down CNN. Usually, my targets never know I ve been inside. My pseudonym, dis-card, won t ever be plastered across a hacked home page, and you ll rarely find me hanging out in a public chat room. I really don t exist; therefore, no one has any reason to fear me.

 ok, I'm in already? you da man! nice, there's almost 100k cards here awesome

A hundred thousand credit card numbers easy money. It s by no means a large score, but certainly one that has become increasingly rare in the last couple years, as security awareness has increased. It is also uncommon nowadays for me to get in this fast.

Temor and I are well-known for providing quality lists. We always get top dollar. Temor brokers the deal to the vendors, who take our lists and sell them off in smaller chunks. Then vendors sell the...

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