That's crazy. 2000 credit cards with same account number and name?
It's different to have a cyber terrorist with 37,000 credit card numbers who acquired them through phishing scams versus an old man accountant who merely requested 2 replacement cards at the expiration of his card who got 2000 physical credit cards of the same number.
Also, the link you provided doesn't say anywhere that the cyber terrorist stole 3.5 US dollars or had 37,000 credit cards. Here it does for anyone who's interested:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...070501945.html