40+ Million TJ Maxx customers, Ukrain, China and ID Theft

As I've said in class, ID Theft is linked to International Organized crime and particularly to Eastern Europe, Russia, and the Ukraine. Here is a source for those claims...

Retail Hacking Ring Charged for Stealing and Distributing Credit and Debit Card Numbers from Major U.S. Retailers

More Than 40 Million Credit and Debit Card Numbers Stolen

Three of the defendants are U.S. citizens, one is from Estonia, three are from Ukraine, two are from the People’s Republic of China and one is from Belarus. One individual is only known by an alias online, and his place of origin is unknown.
http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2008/August/08-ag-689.html