Here is an interesting story that Brian Krebs broke today about a German carder forum. Apparently the admins ran a piss poor operation with respects to their own security. As a result roughly 5,000 forum participants had their messages and emails exposed.
From KrebsOnSecurity:
The breach involves at least three separate files being traded on Rapidshare.com: The largest is a database file containing what appear to be all of the communications among nearly 5,000 Carders.cc forum members, including the contents of private, one-to-one messages that subscribers to these forums typically use to negotiate the sale of stolen goods. Another file includes the user names, e-mail addresses and in many cases the passwords of Carder.cc forum users.
I have to admit, I find this amusing.
(Image used under CC from Andres Rueda)
Que Admiral Ackbar…