http://www.fiadservices.com/two-men-worlds-apart-get-busted-for-credit-card-data-theft/ A Dutch man accused of operating an un derground website devoted to the buying and selling of debit and credit card data appeared in a Seattle federal courtroom Mond ay, where he plead not guilty to a 14-count indictment accusing him of crimes such as access device fraud, bank fraud, and agg ravated identity theft.The Department of Justice said that it had coordinated the arrest of David Benjamin Schrooten (a.k.a "F ortezza"), 21, in Romania this past March, before he was escorted back to the United States by agents from the U.S. Marshals S ervice, arriving Saturday in Seattle. This defendant has created a storm of economic chaos on victims and financial insti tutions around the world," said U.S. attorney Jenny A. Durkan, who heads the Attorney General's advisory committee on cybercri me and intellectual property enforcement, at a news conference. "This indictment alleges that in just one transaction he traff icked in as many as 44,000 stolen credit card numbers resulting in millions of dollars in loss to several financial institutio ns."Authorities said the 44,000 credit card numbers stemmed from just one sale.Authorities said they'd also arrested Maryland- based Christopher A. Schroebel, 21, on related charges--including bank fraud--in November 2011. In May, Schroebel plead guilty to the charges, and was sentenced back in August.Authorities have accused Schrooten and Schroebel of marketing stolen credit card numbers via Internet "carding" sites. They've also accused Schroebel of hacking into two Seattle-area businesses' network s, and stealing credit card data by installing malware that copied data from point-of-sale systems onto a server he controlled in Kansas.According to court documents, "Schroebel stole at least 4,800 credit card numbers ... [and] conspired and worked wi th Schrooten to build 'carding websites,' in order to make the stolen credit card numbers available to criminals for fraud." S ome of the stolen information relating to people's personal bank accounts was then used to commit bank fraud, authorities said .The Seattle Police Department (SPD) said it began investigating the case after a business in Magnolia, Wash., reported that i ts customers had begun experiencing credit card fraud that seemed to have originated with the restaurant.In a Monday news conf erence, the restaurant's owner, Corino Bonjrada, said some of his customers saw charges of $70 or $80, just minutes after usin g their credit card at his restaurant."SPD detectives on location to the Electronic Crimes Task Force quickly matched this cas e with similar patterns and connected the dots to an international criminal enterprise," said assistant Seattle police Chief J im Pugel. "Solving this case would not have been possible without the assistance and collaboration of our partners in the Secr et Service and the Romanian National Police."