"A trusted seller on a popular but shadowy unnamed criminal forum"
I'm sorry, but has the definition of "trusted" changed recently?
Some 1.5 million Verizon Enterprise customer records have been stolen and are being sold on a criminal hacking forum, according to reports. A trusted seller on a popular but shadowy unnamed criminal forum asked for US$100,000 for the database or US$10,000 for batches of 100,000 records, investigative blogger Brian Krebs …
Who knows what information they took ? From what Verizon says, it doesn't sound like much more than a customer list. It's easy to know how valuable it is. Check the price. Consider a drug dealer who breaks into a pharmacy and makes off with 10 cartons only to find out they are full of prescription stool softener. Thief makes off with 10 cartons of prescription medication as a headline hardly tells the story.
<quote>Consider a drug dealer who breaks into a pharmacy and makes off with 10 cartons only to find out they are full of prescription stool softener. </quote>
The best use for 10 cases of prescription stool softener would be to provide them to various members of Government and Law Enforcement; starting with those blokes at the FBI. It may cure them of their ills.
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