The two young men, both 18 years old, were arrested Thursday at their homes in Wales by the Dyfed-Powys Police Service, the FBI said. The teens were arrested in connection with intrusions into nine e-commerce Web sites in Britain, the United States, Canada, Thailand and Japan, the FBI said. The youths were charged with violations of the United Kingdom's 1990 Computer Misuse Act.
British law prohibits the youths from being identified.
The young men are alleged to have stolen credit card information from more than 26,000 accounts and disclosed that information on the Internet, the FBI said. This is a considerable loss, though it's not an enormous loss as far as we've been able to tell at this time. Hitting the Little Guys Curador focused on smaller e-commerce sites. Staff had put data into insecure areas which wasn't supposed to be there, he explained. The FBI told him individual victims of Curador won't be able to press charges against the hackers, he said.