Man arrested in Japan for stealing credit card info via web skimming

A 26-year-old man was arrested in western Japan on Wednesday on suspicion of embedding a malicious program in a website and stealing users’ credit card information, police said, marking the country’s first criminal probe into alleged “web skimming.”

Sho Okuma is believed to have injected the code into a legitimate music-related website and illegally obtained payment information between October and November last year from three customers in Kyoto Prefecture who accessed the site to purchase merchandise, the police said.

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