Forty million credit and debit card numbers.
That's the reported amount stolen by 11people charged with the biggest identity-theft case in America. By hacking through computer systems of major retailers such as TJ Maxx and Barnes & Noble, three U.S. citizens along with nine other people from China, Belarus, Estonia and Ukraine have stolen personal account numbers and passwords to be sold to the highest bidder.
According to the prosecutors, this enormous theft was an "international conspiracy". But what's even more worrying is that since 2005, 45 million credit card numbers were already at risk of being breached by hackers like the funky bunch above. Careful with your spending folks...
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