Rabid Wombat <wombat@mcfeely.bsfs.org> writes:
Based on what I've seen so far, the account numbers were more likely to have been obtained from the databases of merchants than from banks. If the bank was cracked, there would have been many more card numbers from one bank on the CD, rather than a distribution of account numbers issued by many institutions. I doubt that someone managed to crack a dozens of banks, and then took only a few thousand numbers from each. It is more likely that "widgets R us" was compromised, resulting in a few thousand accounts from each of the major banks.
A couple of years ago "hackers" got hold of the credit card numbers being billed by panix.com, a (lousy) NYC ISP. of course that was much less3 than a hundred thousand cards :-) --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps