International Sweep Quashes Credit Card Crime Ring
Law enforcement across Europe, the United States and Australia have snagged 178 people in an operation to quash an international network producing fake credit cards that turned over more than $25 million, according to The Register.
Police in Spain, which was the center of the investigation, discovered 120,000 stolen credit card numbers and 5,000 cloned cards, arrested 76 people and dismantled six cloning labs. There also were arrests in Australia, Sweden, Greece, Finland and Hungary.
Fourteen countries participated in the two-year investigation.
Kara Reeder
Kara joined the IT Business Edge editorial team in February 2007 after working for ProQuest Information and Technology. Kara covers all areas of technology news for ITBE.com.
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