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TNLib Donating Member (683 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-10 09:09 PM
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Raw Story: hacktivists claim to post MasterCard numbers online
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Operation Payback, the hacktivist group taking revenge on groups and individuals seen as enemies of WikiLeaks, has published a list of what it says are 10,000 MasterCard credit card numbers.

The anonymous hackers earlier in the day attacked the websites of both MasterCard and Visa, in retaliation for the companies' freezing of WikiLeaks' account.





http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/cyber-war-heats-hacktivists-post-mastercard-numbers-online/
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Anakin Skywalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-10 09:11 PM
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1. Ha ha ha ha ha!
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-10 09:14 PM
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2. Except that those numbers were just made up gibberish
Both Operation Payback and Mastercard confirmed that.
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-10 09:15 PM
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3. Mastercard claiming the numbers were fake and started with the number 5.
Rawstory says the numbers they has started with 4.
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-10 08:49 AM
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9. MasterCard is a 5, Visa is a 4, and Amex is a 3. First software check you run.
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enlightenment Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-10 09:16 PM
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4. Foolish.
Hack the company, but why expose the people who use the cards? Since Assange was using them, obviously not everyone is a horrible person who deserved to have their information exposed to the public.

This is the trouble with 'hacktivists' - they don't know when to stop.
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walldude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-10 09:17 PM
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5. Except they didn't do it. It was a "joke".
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MH1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-10 09:42 PM
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8. Pretty fucked up 'joke'.
If hacking the site interfered with anyone's access to money or credit they needed to pay a bill, that's pretty fucked up too.

They shouldn't be targeting random people like that. Even falsely boasting that they did is rather sick.
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enlightenment Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-10 10:58 AM
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10. Realized that after I posted, thanks! nt
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TNLib Donating Member (683 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-10 09:21 PM
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6. These are hackers they are going to do what they want
They are loosely organized I don't think anyone has control over what they are doing. Think of it as social hacking, instead of social networking.

The numbers could be completely made up nonsense. They could be a list of cc# numbers that were hacked years ago.
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stray cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-10 09:22 PM
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7. They could be the newest DU heroes!
Edited on Wed Dec-08-10 09:23 PM by stray cat
Posting people's credit cards on line is the truest form of patriotism
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