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Also included with the numbers were expiration dates and cardholder names and addresses, according to a counter on the page. With the click of a button, visitors could launch a script that purportedly obtained a valid credit card "directly from the biggest online shop database," according to a message at the site. The cracker, who goes by the nickname Maxus, claimed in an e-mail to InternetNews.com to have breached the security of CDuniverse.com, an online music store operated by eUniverse, Inc. of Wallingford, Conn. Maxus said he had defeated a popular credit card processing application called ICVerify, from CyberCash (CYCH) and obtained a database containing more than 300,000 customer records from CDuniverse. As proof of his exploit, Maxus e-mailed a file to InternetNews containing dozens of user names and passwords for accessing customer order status information at CDuniverse. One of the victims, Greg Wilson of Binghamton, N.Y., confirmed that he had shopped at the online music store over a year ago. According to Wilson, he was contacted by his credit card company's fraud division last week after someone had attempted to make an authorized charge to his card. RELATED ARTICLES [forums_bullet.gif] U.S. Holiday Internet Sales Surge 300% [forums_bullet.gif] Holiday E-Commerce: More Shoppers, More Spending, More Problems [forums_bullet.gif] Online Credit Card Transactions Double in Year [forums_bullet.gif] Customer Service Worries Online Shoppers For more stories on this topic: ____________________ GO Another victim, Charles Vance of Marietta, Ga. said he had purchased CDs from the company in the past, but had recently cancelled the card on file for unrelated personal reasons. Cybercash officials disputed the hackers report, saying their IC Verify product was not at issue. "CyberCash's ICVERIFY product is a pc-based payment system, not a Web-enabled product and is not being used by CD Universe on its Web site. Therefore, the credit card information cited in recent coverage could not have come from ICVERIFY. "Since we're not involved in this, any other questions should be addressed to law enforcement officials or CD Universe, as it is not appropriate to comment further due to the legalities surrounding this issue." 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Soon after launching his site, Maxus said it became so popular with credit card thieves that he had to implement a cap to limit visitors to one stolen card at a time. The Internet service provider which hosted the Maxus site, Lightrealm Inc., of Kirkland, Wa, took the Maxus site down sometime early Sunday morning. Lightrealm was acquired by Micron Electronics (MUEI) last October. According to Elias Levy, chief technology officer of Internet security information firm SecurityFocus.com, which first publicized the existence of the Maxus site, the incident "is very disturbing. It realizes the fears people have about online commerce." But Levy pointed out that because card holders are usually only responsible for first $50 in fraudulent charges, the real danger in Internet credit card fraud falls on online merchants and credit card companies. "The Internet is not more dangerous for consumers. It allows a criminal to break into a single site and obtain not one credit card, but possibly a database of all credit cards of that site's customers," Levy said. Apprehending Maxus will not be easy, said Richard M. Smith, an online security expert in Brookline, Mass., who helped federal agents track down the author of the Melissa virus, David L. Smith. Maxus appears to move about online using stolen accounts and relays his email through other sites to conceal the originating Internet protocol address, said Smith. "It's possible he could have slipped up somewhere along the way, but I think he's pretty free and clear and it's near zero that they will catch him," Smith said. A guest book at the Maxus site contained dozens of entries from visitors, many of them in Russian. According to BizRate, a service which collects feedback from online shoppers, CD Universe rates highly overall with excellent customer satisfaction scores for nearly all dimensions of its service. 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