Fraud gang 'stole 40m credit card numbers'

News Type: Event — Seeded on Tue Aug 5, 2008 7:22 PM EDT

Article Source: abc.net.au

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The US Department of Justice has charged 11 people with the theft and sale of more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers.

They are accused of stealing the numbers by hacking into the computers of nine major US retailers

The case is the largest identity theft case ever prosecuted by the US Department of Justice.

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