Criminals steal credit card data just by wardriving
posted Aug 15th 2008 3:50pm by Strom Carlsonfiled under: news, security hacks, wireless hacks
A federal grand jury in Boston has charged eleven people with the theft of more than 41 million credit and debit card numbers from retail stores. What makes this case interesting is that, although the defendants stole the data from retail establishments, they did so without ever having to leave their cars; they stole the numbers while wardriving. While the report doesn’t make it clear whether the targeted networks used weak encryption or were simply unsecured, it’s obvious that the security of your data is still not a top priority for many companies.
[photo: Mujitra]
