Re: Re: [General-discussion] Graph analysis of stolen credit cards

[Lance James <phishing () securescience net>]

James Eaton-Lee wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 12:49 +0100, James Eaton-Lee wrote:
>   
> > On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 10:22 +0100, Justin Mason wrote:
> >     
> > > (volume of accounts in thousands).   However that's from 7 years
> > > ago :(
> > >
> > > There may be more recent figures but a quick google can't find 'em.  
> > >       
> > Wikipedia has some good ones on the 'Bank' page:
> >     
>
> And the link, since I'm evidently twitchy about hitting 'send' today..
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank#Bank_Size_Information
>
> I'm actually interested as to the source of the original data - since
> these are cards stolen "by one carding forum", how representative are
> they of card theft globally..
>
>   
What we're seeing in malware is scary for sure, we've uncovered over 2
million cards with the trojan data we monitor in the last 6 months. I
would say that 21,000 is a conservative and not fully discovered number
by one group, but what it does tell you is the minimum amount a group
may be uncovering.

>  - James.
>
>   


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