Posted on 08/17/2009 5:05:50 PM PDT by myknowledge
A serial hacker has been charged with carrying out the largest theft of credit card identities ever recorded in the US, in a sophisticated scam in which he and accomplices allegedly stole at least 130m accounts from big retail companies.
Albert Gonzalez, 28, of Miami, who once worked with the US secret service, is accused of working with two unidentified Russian conspirators to hack into the databases of retail chains, selling the information around the world. According to a 14-page indictment, the hackers stole credit card numbers from Heartland, a New Jersey-based company that processes payments, from the store 7-Eleven, and the supermarket chain Hannaford.
The three also targeted two other, unnamed corporations, according to the US attorney's office in New Jersey.
Heartland Payment Systems and Hannaford Brothers had separately acknowledged the breaches, but the scope of the fraud had not been known.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Waterboarding, et al would be way too kind to these creeps
Hang him high! Truly, only the death penalty will get these idiots’ attention.
Thou shalt not steal. And steal he did, the information of 130 million credit cards.
Life, no parole. See how much it happens in the future.
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The story that Heartland Payment Systems had been infiltrated broke around here last spring - it included the info that the actual “breakins” had taken place during the previous fall - about the time of the ‘08 election - about the time the stories were spreading that the Obama campaign was helping themselves to unapproved “contributions” from people’s credit card accounts - I’m just sayin’......
Yeah, and let’s put all of our healthcard records on one government system so someone can hack into that, right?
Centralizing health card records can be a bad thing. Keeping them secure is the issue.
Life, no parole. See how much it happens in the future.”
LIFE, Hell no. Hanging in a public town square.
I don’t want to feed this creep for the next 60 years. OR give him any medical care.
Prisoners get better medical care than Grandma.
I wonder how many of those stolen cards were used to fund “The One’s” campaign (the one that set all the records) via online transaction.
He is an online Ned Kelly.
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