Feds charge two men in plot to sell hacked Subway gift cards worth $40, 000

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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/feds-charge-two-men-in-plot-to-sell-hacked-subway-gift-cards-worth-40000/

By Cyrus Farivar
Ars Technica
Mar 15 2013

Two California men were charged in a case involving hacking point-of-sale (POS) 
computers at various Subway restaurants in a newly unsealed indictment on 
Friday in Boston.

The two suspects are Shahin Abdollahi, aka “Sean Holdt,” and Jeffrey Thomas 
Wilkinson, both of San Bernardino County, California, east of Los Angeles.

Prosecutors have accused them of hacking at least 13 such POS computers, 
installing a remote desktop application onto those computers which then they 
used to falsely load Subway gift cards totaling “at least $40,000.” They are 
alleged to have then sold those gift cards on eBay and Craigslist.

In September 2012, two Romanians admitted to participating in a similar 
international scheme involving hacked Subway POS computers, racking up more 
than $10 million in losses.

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