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Computer expert Albert Gonzalez has been imprisoned for 20 years in the US for his participation in stealing more than 130 million credit and debit card numbers. He was incriminated together with two Russian co-conspirators for hacking into the retailer payment system. According to the judge who sentenced him, this is the largest and most costly example of computer hacking in the history of United States. Albert Gonzalez is known to be a computer hacker and computer criminal. He is charged of masterminding and organizing the combined credit card theft. He was also the man behind the succeeding reselling of more than 170 million card and ATM numbers from the year 2005 until 2007. This has been the biggest fraud ever recorded in the history of US. The attacks done by Gonzalez and his conspirators started on December 2007 at Heartland Payment Systems, August 2007 in 7-11 store and American supermarket Hannaford Brothers in November 2007. Gonzalez and his team were reported to be targeting big companies and that they critically studied their check-out poles and planned on attacks through the companies internet-connected computers. According to the investigation, Gonzalez and his accomplices have used SQL injection and packet sniffer malware software to create backdoors to many corporate systems in order to access and steal computer data. In September 2009 in Miami, Gonzalez pleaded guilty at his trial. He confessed that due to too much curiosity and addiction he committed this heinous crime. As part of a plea bargain, he surrendered to the court some expensive jewelry, watches, his own car and home. He had also given cash amounting to $1million which he had buried in his parents’ garden. US Mastermind Credit Card Hacker Has Been Sentenced is a post from: Daily World Buzz Continue reading →