"We've gone from card farms to card resellers to international hackers," says Kimberly Peretti, senior counsel in the department's computer crime section.

Peretti, who plays a prominent role in prosecutions against notorious international hackers such as Albert Gonzalez, offers an insider's view of financial data breaches. In this session, she will cover:

• Background on carding: discussion on the current "carding scene," carding forums and carding activity (online, in-store, gift cards, PIN cashing).
  
  
• Evolution of prosecutions: From carding forums in 2004 to major resellers in 2006, and now the new, international hacking rings - including the Gonzalez case.
  
  
• What we know: Lessons learned from the breaches and the criminals, as well as emerging methods - and victims.
  
  
• How we can respond: Emerging technologies and steps organizations can take today to minimize their exposure to financial data breaches.

At the Department of Justice, Ms. Peretti investigates and prosecutes multi-agency and multi-district computer crime and financial fraud cases, especially those involving large scale data breaches, identity theft, and online payment systems. Ms. Peretti is currently the co-lead prosecutor in the Department's largest hacking and identity theft case ever prosecuted - a case in which several members of an international retail hacking ring were convicted of stealing over 40 million credit and debit cards. She also co-led the benchmark prosecution of a global internet-based payment system convicted of money laundering and illegal money transmitting.