Source: BBC News
US prosecutors charged a man with stealing data relating to 130 million credit and debit cards. Officials say it is the biggest case of identity theft in American history.
They say Albert Gonzalez, 28, and two un-named Russian co-conspirators hacked into the payment systems of retailers, including the 7-Eleven chain.
Edward Wilding, a fraud investigator and presenter of the ARC Training Investigating IT Misuse Course, told the BBC that this method was "a pretty standard way" for fraudsters to try to access personal data. Mr Wilding said there was little consumers could do to protect themselves against this kind of fraud.
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