Robin Hood hackers targeting credit cards worldwid

02/12/2011

Hacktivist groups Anonymous and TeaMp0isoN have announced "Operation Robin Hood", a campaign of stealing credit card details to make donations to charities, homeless people and anti-government protesters around the world.

"Operation Robin Hood is going to return the money to those who have been cheated by our system and most importantly to those hurt by our banks," p0isAnon said in a statement released on Monday. "Operation Robin Hood will take credit cards and donate to the 99% as well as various charities around the globe," it added.

"We have already taken Chase, Bank of America, and CitiBank credit cards with big breaches across the map. We have returned it to the poor (the TRUE 99%) who deserve it," the hacktivist groups said in their joint statement.

Citibank said they are currently looking into these claims, Visa Europe did not respond to a request for comment.

The politically motivated hackers implied that their actions won't hurt cardholders because credit card fraud victims are generally reimbursed by banks. Anonymous and TeaMp0isoN are defiant when it comes to possible law enforcement actions against them resulting from this campaign. "We are not afraid of the Police, Secret Service, or the FBI," they said.

Source: CIO.com