Seller of credit card info caught
By The Nation
2011-03-09
Police arrested a Chaiyaphum man for allegedly selling credit-card data via the Internet at Bt1-Bt8 per piece. The man reportedly confessed to doing this for four months and earning Bt60,000.
Former salesman Krissada Nulao, 24, who was arrested in Khon Kaen in a police sting operation, was presented at a news conference yesterday along with a notebook computer, two mobile phones, three ATM cards, two bankbooks and one compact disc containing credit-card information.
The arrest followed a tip-off by the Credit Cards Club at the Thai Bankers Association that criminals stole credit-card information and sold in on websites.
Krissada reportedly confessed that he got the information from a friend, who got it from people working in a bank, while other information was obtained by hacking. He declined to give details about how they obtained the information, saying those who hired him were watching. Police are considering issuing arrest warrants for his alleged accomplices soon.
The police investigation initially estimated that 100,000 pieces of credit-card information had been leaked and sold to websites.
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