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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 …

  1. John Tserkezis

    "A trusted seller on a popular but shadowy unnamed criminal forum"

    I'm sorry, but has the definition of "trusted" changed recently?

    1. Mark 85

      I think you can only trust him/her to deliver what you purchased. OTOH, you can trust him/her to hack into and steal whatever they can find. Is there honor amongst thieves?

      1. allthecoolshortnamesweretaken

        Maybe he is a broker, not the original hacker? You can get anything "as a service" these days.

        1. Mark 85

          Well, that article did say "trusted seller" so he probably is a broker.

          1. John Brown (no body) Silver badge
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            "Item arrived on time and in good condition. Would buy from this seller again. 5 stars."

  2. gnufrontier

    You call that a heist ?

    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.

    1. Fatman
      Joke

      Re: You call that a heist ?

      <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.

      </snark>

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