From: William Knowles (wkC4I.ORG)
Date: Tue May 02 2000 - 15:59:54 CDT

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MOSCOW (AP) - Police arrested five suspected hackers accused of
stealing credit card numbers from Internet retailers and pocketing
more than $630,000, according to a news report Friday.

The group, operating from December through April, stole numbers from
more than 5,400 cards belonging to Russians and foreigners, police
said, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported.

The 22-year-old alleged mastermind of the scheme registered an
Internet retailer called "Politshop" and made an agreement with a
Moscow bank for handling credit-card transactions, the report said.

Other members of the group allegedly cracked the systems of genuine
Internet retailers, stole the credit card numbers of their customers
and made bogus purchases from Politshop, thus moving money from the
victims' banks to Politshop's accounts, the report said.

The report did not say what kinds of goods Politshop supposedly
offered, or how the group was caught. Other suspects include a
19-year-old technical college student, 19-year-old and 22-year-old
unemployed men, and a 40-year-old businessman, ITAR-Tass reported.

Hacker crimes are on the rise in Russia and last year included an
attack on the state gas monopoly Gazprom, Interior Ministry Col.
Konstantin Machabeli said earlier this week, according to the Interfax
news agency.

Acting together with a Gazprom insider, hackers got past the huge
company's security and temporarily seized control of the system
regulating gas flows in pipelines, Machabeli said. He did not say if
the hackers caused any damage.

Police registered more than 850 cases of computer crime in Russia in
1999, up twelvefold from the year before, the report said.

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