Arcade technician and programmer Marvin Wimberly probably thought he had the perfect plan: install a virus to disable a series of those loud and annoying Whack-A-Mole games popular with kids and get paid to fix them when they break.
In events similar to those that inspired the Steven Speilberg film Catch Me If You Can, Phillip John Heggie wasn’t your typical year 12 student. While most people his age might have been content to earn money the hard way by packing shelves at Woollies, Heggie had bigger plans. The type of plans worth $2million.
Did you know that credit card details are sold for around $US1.50 each? What might cost you hundreds or even thousands (not to mention the stress), costs black-market buyers less than a coffee, as Krebs On Security discovered.
