Albert Gonzales, the hacker who currently serves a 20-year prison sentence for stealing the details of over 130 million credit cards from TJX and other companies, wants to withdraw his guilty plea and claims he acted with authorization from the government.A former undercover Secret Service informant, Gonzales filed a... |
8 April 2011
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Albert Gonzales, the most prolific credit card thief in history, was sentenced to twenty years in a federal prison yesterday. The sentence is only for the 2005 attacks against TJX, Office Max, Barnes & Noble, Dave & Busters and a few other retailers; however, the hacker is also awaiting sentencing in a different case... |
26 March 2010
10:28 GMT |
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A former Barclays network security manager named Humza Zaman was sentenced to 46 months in prison for money-laundering charges in connection with the data breaches at TJX, Heartland Payment Systems and other companies. His role was to receive stolen money on behalf of Albert Gonzales, the notorious hacker who masterm... |
13 March 2010
06:28 GMT |
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Stephen Watt, a 25-year-old software developer, was sentenced to two years in a federal prison for the role he played in the TJX hit, one of the largest credit card thefts in history. The programmer was also ordered to pay the company $171.5 million in restitution for the harm caused.The man befriended notorious hack... |
28 December 2009
10:05 GMT |
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