“When ChronoPay’s internal emails were leaked in 2010, the username and password for its MegaPlan subscription were still working and valid.”
Rescator sold more than 40 million Target cards and then 56 million from Home Depot. Ten years on, the trail runs through an email address in a ChronoPay staff directory to Mikhail Shefel, a ChronoPay vice president. ChronoPay employees picked Reservoir Dogs nicknames and forwarded everything to their real work inboxes. The clue sat in a screenshot in Krebs’s own notes the whole time.