In mid-September, a European hacker nicknamed Poxxie broke into the computer network of a U.S. company and, he said, grabbed 1,400 credit card numbers, the account holders’ names and addresses, and the security code that comes with each card.
With little trouble, he sold the numbers for $3.50 each on his own site, called CVV2s.in, to buyers who have come to trust the quality of his goods, he said.
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