The mask slips: Sociopathic Billy drops all pretense; since there's nothing in it for him anymore, it's time to start beating up smaller, weaker people. It only took one day before he reverted to type.

His heavy-lidded look of casual malice will change soon when Jeffy's well-placed kick changes the dynamics.

CRIME Brian Krebs broke the story of the Target data breach; now he follows the trail to Ukraine, where he finds a fellow who offers some numbers for sale. He writes: " . . . debit card accounts stolen in the Target hack . . . ended up for sale on rescator[dot]la, a popular underground store. Today's post looks a bit closer at open-source information on a possible real-life identity for the proprietor of that online fraud shop." Indeed it does. Good read if you're interested in this type of online sleuthing.

A transcription of the conversation follows, with pictures of the suspect He's certainly not the only guy involved. What would be an apt punishment for inconveniencing 40 million people? Amputation of the hands would send a message and keep them from committing mischief in the future, but that seems a bit much. Maybe the crooks should be forced to wear thick fingerless mittens for a few years. The mittens would be equipped with ankle-bracelet tech, so they couldn't be removed without setting off alarms. This way the crooks could use their hands to cook or hold a glass, but couldn't type. No one wants their criminal having syndicate to be slowed down by mitten-handed guys who got caught the last time.

(via CityPages.)

STAY CLASSY Television newsreader has a viewer arrested over a tweet that mocked his dramatic story teases. The fellow was later released; the TV personality says it's now a "mute point," and there was more to the story than we know. His Twitter Bio:

Will devourer! Devourer of wills. Also from Mediaite, the most clumsily-named site on the internet, this Onionesque headline: AP Article About Limiting Nasty Internet Comments Gets Its Own Nasty Internet Comments

ARTISTIC VANDALISM The Economist tells the tale of a typeface thought lost forever.

But what was he destroying?

Why? And how did they bring the typeface back to life? More here.