You may remember a while back in 2008 it was uncovered (at least publically) that DarkMarket was actually an FBI Sting Operation.
Insiders had apparently known since 2006 that one of the admins was actually an undercover FBI agent. Countless cases have gone to court with the evidence and contacts gathered in the DarkMarket forums. One [...]

Ah it’s that time of the year again when all the back to skoolers have some mad l33t knowledge and wanna h4×0r the planet or something.
Hmmm website hacking, sounds simple eh?
thriller wrote:
hai i would like to know website hacking how?……… sedn to my mail
Ok I’m following up up to the exploding part? Not quite sure [...]

It’s been a few months since the last Retard Update, and it’s definitely been slower since I posted the disclaimer and link on the Contact Page.
There have been some weird ones, one worders, one liners and stuff in foreign languages.
Anyway let’s get started with a classic ‘script-kiddy I can’t operate my computer‘ type mail.
lloyd wrote:
hey [...]

Merry xmas everyone, here is the year end summary of retarded e-mails. We have had a splendid amount of retarded comments recently too and some decent e-mails too (but all asking the same thing “How do I start learning to be a hacker, what should I do, what should I read etc..I’ll write a post [...]

You may remember the story about the Pro ATM Hacker ‘Chao’ and his Tips a while back, apparently that was the start of a big global sting operation on credit card fraud.
Chao was admin/moderator on a community of carders (where they bought/sold stolen credit card info) called DarkMarket and the first to be busted, it [...]

Another big heist in the US netting a whole lot of juicy information on credit and debit cards, over half a million USD lost in this case alone. There’s a whole lot of fraud going on..
Not bad for fiddling with the cash register system of a restaurant chain. It just shows, anyone dealing with finanical [...]

Recently a fairly huge credit card breach occurred involving a large retail company called TJX, with more than 2,000 retail stores.
Some pretty well known brands there, I know I’ve used some of them…the sad part is they themselves still haven’t worked out the extent of the damage done to their information.
For me this has serious [...]

Ah another huge hacking resulting in a large loss of confidential information, companies really need to start getting more pro-active about aggresively testing their corporate networks and web based applications.
Information including CREDIT CARD numbers sadly.

AT&T on Tuesday said hackers broke into one of its computer systems and accessed personal data on thousands of customers who [...]

I saw some interesting information recently on a mailing list.

We took one sample of one carding/phishing forum that our Global Surveillance Center was monitoring and sampled the set into a graph that lists the top 10 banks and the losses over the last month. As you can see, it’s obvious who the top credit card [...]