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Hacker Taunts Americans For Letting Him Steal Their Identities

Americana — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 22:55:57 EST

Phishing sites aren't hard to figure out. When you get an email from, say, Bank of America and the url for the site you're supposed to punch your info to has a url that sounds like some Russian deal (instead, y'know, bankofamerica.com) it's pretty obviously not right.

Americana

Hacker Taunts Americans For Letting Him Steal Their Identities

voodoodle — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:54:41 EST

so apparently he's too good for us but not too good for our money. yeah, it sounds like they do a great job raising 'em over there.

voodoodle

Hacker Taunts Americans For Letting Him Steal Their Identities

DJ Barrak — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:26:41 EST

People just don't use common sense, don't do research, and feel sorry for people. Unless I know you personally, everyone is an asshole and a scammer, no matter how many times I deal with you. Don't compromise.

DJ Barrak

Hacker Taunts Americans For Letting Him Steal Their Identities

Gamby — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 17:27:05 EST

People dont realize alot of information is bought and traded online so it wouldnt be hard to find some peoples info outside of phishing. IRC and any of the p2p networks have tons of them. Whether or not they are real or if the credit cards are still functional is another story.

Gamby

Hacker Taunts Americans For Letting Him Steal Their Identities

Trai_Dep — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 15:37:35 EST

...and jack-off races. American fourteen-year-olds are known for their Olympic-standard j-o race powress. Err, the boys, that is.

(not revealing too much of my adolescence, I hope)

Trai_Dep

Hacker Taunts Americans For Letting Him Steal Their Identities

nakmario — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:18:46 EST

Capitalass...

I hate to break it to you buddy, but Im Mexican.

I live in the US but I am by no means an "American" - not that there is anything wrong with that. I just am very proud to be Mexican.

So no, its not about nationalism. It's about how this guys brags about how "smart" Romanians are and yet they can't seem to form a decent government. Mexicans.... we're working on it.

nakmario

Hacker Taunts Americans For Letting Him Steal Their Identities

capitalass — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 09:26:59 EST

"I'd still rather have my identity stolen than to live in Romania... so... yeah."

nakmario-That's pretty funny.

Still, I'm surprised this has become a nationalistic struggle on consumerist. I outsource all of my hacking needs to Romania.

America Rocks! No one can mess with the states, 'cause we'll shoot 'em down (and ourselves too) with Blackhawk helicopters and liberate them with cheeseburgers and Halliburton infrastructure.

For those of you who lost your identities to this jerk, just post your credit card number as well as your social security number on this page, and I will take care of that guy (Should I add a disclaimer to that statement?). Oh yeah, the catch, err, disclaimer...it will only work if you post from a McDonald's terminal while concurrently browsing porn.

capitalass

Hacker Taunts Americans For Letting Him Steal Their Identities

Xkeeper — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 05:36:30 EST

I could design a phishing website in about five minutes tops. Most of which would be restarting my database server.

Honestly, congrats. You discovered morons. Way to go.

Xkeeper

Hacker Taunts Americans For Letting Him Steal Their Identities

Helvetian — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 02:49:38 EST

@cavron: I noticed this, I've had mine since I registered (before you lol). It's cool though, since it's the Swiss flag I'm not too surprised.

Helvetian

Hacker Taunts Americans For Letting Him Steal Their Identities

superbmtsub — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 02:31:42 EST

If Romania is known for phishing (thought it was Nigeria), then America is known for litigation. We should take those eurocraps to court here and sue the hell outta them or their government. But then, they'd steal stuff from us again just to buy a loaf of bread and some cigarettes.

superbmtsub

Hacker Taunts Americans For Letting Him Steal Their Identities

cavron — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 01:41:10 EST

@Helvetian -

Whoa, we have the same avatar? Quite odd!

cavron

Hacker Taunts Americans For Letting Him Steal Their Identities

toomanyplugs — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:12:19 EST

umm, hey guys? What about that post about not just blurring info on posted pics, but blocking it out? I think it was posted here.

Don't you have a responsibility now to protect this data, too? I mean, yeah, it's already out there, but couldn't we avoid making just that little bit easier to get?

toomanyplugs

Hacker Taunts Americans For Letting Him Steal Their Identities

Helvetian — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 23:11:08 EST

The min is four digits for an ATM PIN. Not sure if your account has different requirements. I know the phishing scams well, and as long as you safeguard your info; you're good. My info is safe, I'm not pretentious about it; but I monitor my accounts closely including authorizations and am very perceptive of any changes. Everyone must take control of their financial accounts and safeguard it.

Helvetian

Hacker Taunts Americans For Letting Him Steal Their Identities

loquaciousmusic — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 22:23:10 EST

Bank of America requires an eight-digit pin, at least for me. Seriously, does anyone else need an eight-digit pin? Because that's a crapload of numbers for me to remember.

loquaciousmusic

Hacker Taunts Americans For Letting Him Steal Their Identities

Rajio — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 22:09:27 EST

@Scazza:

lol @Scazza & Counterstrike.

hit the nail on the head )

Rajio

Hacker Taunts Americans For Letting Him Steal Their Identities

homerjay- Smiling politely — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 19:42:08 EST

The government of Romania must be so proud of their young folks. So proud...

homerjay- Smiling politely

Hacker Taunts Americans For Letting Him Steal Their Identities

matukonyc — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 19:20:40 EST

Romania is the hacker capital of the world. Try to buy something online and have it shipped there... you'll notice that no online retailer will do it!

matukonyc

Hacker Taunts Americans For Letting Him Steal Their Identities

LatherRinseRepeat — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 19:03:58 EST

It amazes me that banks still use your mother's maiden as a security password/verification. And some banks will only let you use a 4 digit PIN for your ATM card. I'd prefer at least a 9 or 10 digits.

LatherRinseRepeat

Hacker Taunts Americans For Letting Him Steal Their Identities

Skylar — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:52:11 EST

"Last thing : Why big companies from internet market want only romanian guys to work for them ????? Because WE ARE THE BEST !!!!!!!!"

Well, it sure as hell isn't for your English skills.

Speaking of Borat, remember the village in the beginning? Filmed in Romania. I mean Jesus, guys, if you need the money so bad, you could try asking.

Skylar

Hacker Taunts Americans For Letting Him Steal Their Identities

GenXCub — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:45:07 EST

Euro-trash needs to stop learning English from watching Borat.

GenXCub

Hacker Taunts Americans For Letting Him Steal Their Identities

priznat — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:30:43 EST

Our assholes could beat their assholes any day of the work!

Bring it, commies!

priznat

Hacker Taunts Americans For Letting Him Steal Their Identities

Bon Jour, Pee Wee — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:20:44 EST

You can get your identity surfing webspages?

I think that's my new 'internets'.

Bon Jour, Pee Wee

Hacker Taunts Americans For Letting Him Steal Their Identities

nakmario — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:47:06 EST

I'd still rather have my identity stolen than to live in Romania... so... yeah.

nakmario

Hacker Taunts Americans For Letting Him Steal Their Identities

Scazza — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:43:50 EST

So this "leet kiddie" was able to set up a simple phishing site... wow, thats some mad skillz there!

Go back to playing counterstrike and living in "the asshole of europe" as I believe the joke goes.

Scazza

Hacker Taunts Americans For Letting Him Steal Their Identities

mopar_man — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:36:53 EST

There are plenty of idiots who don't know how to protect their info, from all over the world.

How true. I know there's people out there that could easily fall victim to this stuff but I always tell them to contact me if they think something is "phishy".

mopar_man

Hacker Taunts Americans For Letting Him Steal Their Identities

barry_seltzer — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:31:06 EST

@barry_seltzer: Bah... DCOM. Need more caffiene.

barry_seltzer

Hacker Taunts Americans For Letting Him Steal Their Identities

barry_seltzer — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:28:25 EST

Phishing sites are easy to write, and relatively uninteresting, from a technical standpoint. I doubt this guy is as "hot" as he thinks he is. There are plenty of idiots who don't know how to protect their info, from all over the world.

Hunting for IDL for unprotected DOM objects is a challenge and provides a useful service (finding holes in Windows). Trying to beat SNORT, things like that... interesting and they can help build better, more secure systems.

Phishing is largely a cowardly way to herd idiots and requires even less skill than installing Metasploit and calling yourself a "hacker".

Congratulations, these Romanian h4x0rs have discovered that there are idiots in the world.

barry_seltzer