US authorities have indicted four Romanians going the by the names xjuniior, dobitoc212, r_florinus and iulyvip respectively over charges they hacked into computers of over 200 American businesses, particularly aiming at checkout and POS (point-of-sale) systems for filching payment card data, published softpedia.com in news on December 9, 2011.
Over 150 subway eateries across the USA were the chief attack points though 50 other retailers too were targeted, the indictment revealed.
Moreover, the statistics disclosed in the indictment suggest over 80,000 customers who had been affected due to the hack, which spanned 3-yrs (2008-May 2011), during when, the hackers' gang netted millions via the stolen information on credit cards.
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