Stolen credit card data published in blog | The Australian

Blair Speedy | May 29, 2009
Article from: The Australian

VICTORIAN police are investigating a massive identity fraud involving the personal details of thousands of Australians that have been available on an internet blog site for more than a month.

The data, discovered by The Australian, includes thousands of Visa, Mastercard and American Express numbers, including expiry dates, together with home addresses, phone numbers and email addresses.

The list was posted on a free blogging site, where it was copied by search engine Google as part of its routine cataloguing of internet sites on April 21.

Victoria Police Sergeant Dave Spencer said the list appeared to have been collected from a number of sources before being sold to criminals.

"Lists like this come up for sale on the internet, and this is basically the end product of skimming and hacking of ATMs and other point-of-sale systems," Sergeant Spencer said.

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