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On March 28, 2013, a joint operation coordinated by the Romanian Cybercrime Unit in Romania in close cooperation with Europol’s European Cybercrime Center (EC3), resulted in dismantling a global credit fraud network and arresting 44 members of the network. The international operation, code-named “Pandora Storm”, took down people involved in sophisticated manipulations of point of sale (POS) terminals in big shopping centers across Europe and also online fraud. During the operation, law enforcement officials dismantled two illegal workshops for producing devices and software to manipulate POS terminals. Law enforcement officials seized illegal electronic equipment, financial data, cloned cards, and cash during 82 house searches in Romania and the United Kingdom. More than 400 police officers participated in the international operation.[1]