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Depends on what he did with them. Likely nothing, considering he's speaking about it so freely on a public website.

Wonder what the implications of just taking the CC numbers 20 years ago would have been?

Probably depends on how they acquired them (breaking into an online store's payment transaction database / trading for the CCs on IRC / lifting them using a physical skimmer / etc.)

Yeah, I never actually used or shared/sold any of it since it was mostly a game for me. But nowadays I understand it is a very bad idea even just to store this kind of stuff.

I was old enough to know better, but I knew a couple of younger people who were doing it because "it was easy" and policing of such things hadn't caught up to the internet yet, so for someone at their age they would have just considered it to be "dumb stuff on the internet".

It doesn't translate to today's Internet.

(This would have been ~25 years ago, maybe a bit more)

That's straight up crime lol