Hacker Finds a New Home for Stolen Cards Hacker Finds a New Home for Stolen Cards Paul Jones
Curador, the online credit-card thief who has penetrated the security mechanisms of a number of leading e-commerce sites, is master of his own domain again.
The cracker, who has been posting thousands of stolen credit cards at a succession of personal web sites for the past six weeks, opened up shop Friday at a new location.
Curador, who calls himself "the custodian of ecommerce," claims to have stolen over 23,000 credit cards from eight small sites over the past six weeks. After each hit, he's posted several hundred additional card numbers and customer names and addresses online in what he calls his "Hall of Shame." And each time he pops up online with a new site, Web hosting firms and domain registrars have responded by shutting it down. Curador has said he uses stolen credit cards to pay for the domain registrations.
Who-is records from Network Solutions' WorldNic registration service reveal that Curador's new site is registered to Fibres Solutions of Swansea, Wales. No valid phone or e-mail contact information was provided.
Although Curador claims to have cracked some new sites, he has not yet published their names or posted any card numbers or other customer records obtained from them.
Spokesperson Chris Clough said NSI is investigating the incident, but the registration firm has no way of preventing such occurrences. Clough added that the proposed acquisition of Network Solutions by digital certificate firm Verisign could result in new authentication services that could prevent such fraudulent registrations.
