Investigators found that Saqibullah was also in contact with other hackers and cybercriminals in countries such as Canada, Nigeria, America and Italy from whom he collected the bulk of international credit card data. He would purchase the stolen credit card data from these overseas hackers and sell them on. He would receive payments through the Western Union money transfer facility by using tampered identity cards of his family members and others. Officials said the suspect had also tampered the CNICs of his family members and relatives to use counterfeit credit and debit cards at various shopping points. “He prepared international credit cards using the name of his father or mother, but wrote the stolen credit card information of someone else to use them for online shopping,” officials said, adding that they had found 20 blank PVC cards, a magnetic strip reader, a skimmer and two credit cards from his possession.

Source: The Express Tribune December 09, 2017 04:30 UTC