12/05/2014 – Pizza Orders Reveal Credit Card Scheme, and a Secondhand Market (The New York Times)

One of the many kinds of identity theft is the black-market sale of stolen credit card numbers. No card is necessary: just the number and the three-digit security code that goes with it. A thief buys a list of those numbers. The next step is to see which ones have not been canceled.

Read the full article at The New York Times.