ID profiles worth far more than credit card details to crooks
By Surferbill - Last updated: Thursday, November 22, 2007 - Save & Share - Leave a Comment
“Gunter Ollmann, a security researcher in the ISS security division of IBM, discovered that a list of 2,000 credit card details (including CVV2 codes and magstripe data) is worth about the same as 40 standard identities (ie name, address, phone number, social security number, and date of birth).”
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