Police Arrest 178 People in Global Credit Card Scam Involving 120,000 Stolen Credit Card Numbers

Police in Europe and the United States have arrested 178 people in 14 countries on charges of credit card fraud.

Apparently the investigation has found 120,000 stolen credit card numbers, and 5,000 cloned credit cards. Six card cloning labs have been seized.

Brian Krebs (krebsonsecurity.com) has posted an excellent blog post today. He’s even posted a picture of one of the credit card cloning labs, sourced from the Spanish Ministry of Interior.