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#272 – Brett Johnson: US Most Wanted Cybercriminal

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What's the Connection to a Credit Card?

The Ukrainians happened upon this thing called the CVV one breach or hack is what they call it. So you take the card number forward slash any 16 digits, it would encode. Take it to the ATM, pull cash out because you got the pin. Now we were fishing data from hell. I mean, we were we were doing a lot of fishing a lot. We were getting pins,. We were getting card numbers, but you can't get that algorithm. Ukrainian start testing stuff. What they found out was no bank had implemented the hash on track two. It's not connected to track. Not connected at all. That's that's one of the big problems. All right. Yeah

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