A Christmas Day attack on a large Russian payment processor over there can indicate trouble on the way over here.

That's according to the fourth-quarter 2010 e-crime report just issued by Internet Identity (IID), a Tacoma, Wash.-provider of online security services to financial institutions and other e-commerce enterprises.

The company said cyber fraudsters hacked the Internet domain of ChronoPay on Dec. 25 and 26, a domain name server attack that re-directed users to a bogus site and collected approximately 800 credit card numbers from customers.

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