Internet: Great ID Market

One man from Arizona has been charged and sentenced for using stolen identities to steal cash from the original persons' accounts.

You've probably heard about identities being stolen a million times before, but I for one, have never noticed a more severe case than this one. As Sophos tells us, the criminal held more than 4.500 illegal credit and debit cards - just try and imagine the number of stolen identities!

Of course, the guy that was arrested is not the real criminal, but just a peon in this whole action, a fact which may come as a frustration to some of the victims, since the ones that were behind all this, stealing and selling identities, are still at large.

According to Sophos, the imprisoned man is a 21-year old by the name of Jacob Vincent Green-Bressler and he was convicted for soliciting information, including account numbers, PINs, expiration dates, passwords and social security numbers, all these for fraudulent purposes. The young man was counterfeiting credit cards and it's easy to imagine what he did with them, more than $300.000 being torn out of the accounts..

The Police are trying their best to get to the root of this and capture the cyber-criminals, since it's more important to stop such actions by going to the very root of things. If hackers can't steal identities, then they have none to sell and if that happens there will be no more impersonations like these ones.

Graham Cluely, one of Sophos' experts stated that even though a great effort has been already done to strike down the hackers that did this, there is much more that needs to be done in order for such things to stop.

There are three possible solutions for such things not to happen again: one would be increasing security measures, the second would be for people to be better warned against these threats and the last one would be making such crooks pay a lot more - a heavy sentence would surely scare a big part of them.