Australia's biggest ever data theft: gang busted over credit card crime

Updated November 29 2012 - 10:49am, first published 9:00am
Credit card theft ... $30 million was stolen globally.
Credit card theft ... $30 million was stolen globally.

Police have smashed a Romanian organised crime gang that allegedly hacked into the computer systems of small businesses, with credit card details of 30,000 Australians used in $30 million worth of illegal transactions around the world.

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