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EARTHDATE: March 14, 2010

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REAL LIFE NEWS: HOW TO GET RID OF THE EVIDENCE

by Hazed

A suspected cybercrook has been charged with obstruction, thanks to his attempt to dispose of a USB drive that it was suspected had credit card details on it. His method of disposal? He swallowed it!

Florin Necula, from New York, ate a Kingston flash drive shortly after he was arrested outside a bank in Queens last month. While waiting to be processed and questioned at a Secret Service office in Brooklyn, he swallowed it down. As a result he had a trip to hospital and, four days later, an operation to remove the USB stick.

Necula and three others allegedly used card skimmers to swipe credit card details from victims, via a doctored ATM machine. The flash drive that he consumed was thought to contain mag strip dumps from those cards. Police recovered laptops, cameras, flash drives, and mobile phones during a raid at a Long Island City apartment used by Necula and his associates.

I guess this just shows how small memory technology is these days - not that long ago, you couldn't have got a storage device into your mouth, let alone down your throat!


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