11 people have been charged with the largest credit card fraud ever. Three of the people indicted were America and from Miami. The men drove around looking for open wifi and would find a business and use sniffing programs to find sensitive information using a technique called "ware Driving!"
They had acquired around 40 million credit and debit numbers. They targeted retailers such as: Barnes & Noble, Office Max Bj's Wholesale club, Forever 21, Sports Authority and many others.
The men would tap into wireless networks and retrieve information using laptops and sniffer programs. After they would get the information and passwords they would sale of the 3's and make cards to get money out of atms.
One of the men in the indictment is a Albert"Segvec" Gonzalez who worked as a confidential informant for the Secret Service. He faces life in prison!
This Fraud case be only a baby compared to other crimes that are committed today. I am sure someone else is doing the same thing in another city. With todays availability of wifi and going to the pawn shop buying a used laptop anything is possible!
I really hope crimes like this don't make businesses shut off there wifi to the public. I hope they will find a better solution like joining a network that will allow preaproved surfers to surf free. Like people who have google accounts or other registered accounts.
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