Inside The Secret Service's Cyber Crimes War Room -- CBS
WASHINGTON -- Inside the Secret Service's Criminal Investigation division, Special Agent In Charge Ed Lowery gave CBS News rare access to a room where agents track cyber criminals around the world.
Screens inside the room showed an Internet chat room based in Russia, where hackers were brazenly selling what they'd just stolen, including U.S. Social Security numbers, offered at $2 each.
Along with credit cards, Social Security numbers and personal information, thieves also use the marketplace to sell the latest know-how. The recent attacks on Target lasted for weeks -- and at Neiman Marcus, for three months -- when highly sophisticated thieves broke through the companies' firewalls and stole millions of card numbers but never raised an alarm.
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My Comment: I never knew that the US Secret Service had a cyber crimes war room .... scary stuff (the hackers .... not the Secret Service).
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