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What really interests me is how they located him. The article says they had very many compromised seller/vendor accounts, and it says that crucially they had an
by chippy 12y ago
What really interests me is how they located him. The article says they had very many compromised seller/vendor accounts, and it says that crucially they had an IRS agents help also.
So, to me, this implies that they were able to get all the customer information from the compromised vendors about their transactions over the years, their names and addresses and goods sold... and via the IRS, access to customers bank accounts, money in an out.
That might well be enough to get a list of potential targets. I wonder if they might be able to use bitcoin data also?
- wavefunction 12y agoPretty sure the financial information would have come from the NSA's surveillance of financial institutions.[1] They are tracking global bank transactions and the IRS doesn't necessarily have the juice to get info from other countries. [1]http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/the-nsa-spied-on-credit-cards-and-bank-transactions http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/the-nsa-spied-on-credit-car...