The suspect, aged 27, sold data “underground markets in the Tor network,” one of the “dark networks or darknets” which allows anonymous connections and therefore are used by cybercriminals, according to the same source.
The name of the boy of 27 years remained anonymous by the Spanish police. Photo: Special
The Spanish police in Madrid announced the arrest of a hacker who trafficked with data from 1,100 bank cards that suffered fraud EUR 1.1 million of.
The suspect, aged 27, sold data “Tor underground network markets”, one of the “dark networks or darknets” which allows anonymous connections and therefore they are used by cybercriminals, according to the same source.
“The investigation computer expert selling data associated with bank cards in various underground marketplaces,” according to Spanish police, adding that was good valued by “the quality of information selling”, which came from a Spanish bank cards, was the one who put the complaint that initiated the investigation.
The suspect, whose identity has not been disclosed, He had used his old job at a computer company hired by the bank to gain the card data by “a complex application developed by himself and installed systems of the bank”.
” The hacker would have sold the information of more than 1,100 cards, used for more than 5,000 fraudulent transactions and have been a consummate fraud of 1 million euros and tried to 100,000 operations 3 225,000 million euros “, according to Spanish police.
The police seized four laptop computers, four hard drives and eight storage devices and three mobile phones.
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