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posted by mrpg on Thursday July 19 2018, @04:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the hack-the-planet-hack-the-DB dept.

Submitted via IRC for BoyceMagooglyMonkey

The US Department of Justice, Apple, and game maker Supercell, have been warned of a money laundering ring that uses fake Apple accounts and gaming profiles to make transactions with stolen credit/debit cards and then sells these game premiums on online sites for the group's profit.

This operation came to light in mid-June when security researchers from Kromtech Security came across a MongoDB database that had been left exposed online without authentication.

"As we examined the database we rapidly became aware that this was not your ordinary corporate database," said Kromtech researcher Bob Diachenko.

"This database appeared to belong to credit card thieves (commonly known as carders) and that it was relatively new, only a few months old," he added.

Source: Open MongoDB Database Exposes Mobile Games Money Laundering Operation


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