Suspected Credit Card Hacker Busted By Dutch Police
- By Grey McKenzie
- Published 06/30/2008
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Dutch police have arrested a 20-year-old man suspected of hacking on the internet and stealing the details of 50 000 credit cards, Dutch court said on Friday.
According to the Dutch Ministry of the Interior, the 20 year old hacker had managed to "burn 13 million Euros playing poker online and shopping for notebooks, flat screens and MP3 players" before being caught.
The man, detained in Maastricht on last Tuesday, is also alleged to have hacked into the server of a US videogame-maker and stolen a copy of the game 'Enemy Territory: Quake War' while it was in development.
Police seized the man's computer and a gun during their search of his home.
He is thought to have used the credit card identities, obtained through a British ticketing agency, to make numerous online purchases, racking up $20-million of infrastructure damage along the way.
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