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by mtnGoat 1525 days ago
Those were just text files showing form submissions from fake billing(phishing) pages. I’d guess.

If it wasn’t a “non”(a cc never used at AOL before) it was low value, credit cards were a dime a dozen back then. Only Nons were really high value to ao-hackers. Or cards with the bank phone number, from the back of the card, so you could find out how much available credit they had.