20 Years For Gonzalez In TJX Hacker Case

alphadogg writes "Hacker mastermind Albert Gonzalez was sentenced Thursday in US District Court to two concurrent 20-year stints in prison for his role in what prosecutors called the 'unparalleled' theft of millions of credit card numbers from major US retailers. US District Court Judge Patti B. Saris announced the concurrent sentences in two 2008 cases against Gonzalez, 28, a Cuban-American who was born in Miami, where he lived when the crimes were committed. Gonzalez and co-conspirators hacked into computer systems and stole credit card information from TJX, Office Max, DSW and Dave and Buster's, among other online retail outlets, in one of the largest — if not the largest — cybercrime operations targeting that sort of data thus far. They then sold the numbers to other criminals. Gonzalez pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges in two cases related to those thefts last December and the following day entered a guilty plea in a third case involving hacking into computer networks of Heartland Payment Systems and the Hannaford Supermarkets and 7-Eleven chains."

Comments

You got my hopes up

[smooth wombat]

I misread the first line as "Alberto Gonzalez".

One can still dream though.

Re:This sparks an interesting idea

[Anonymous Coward]

To make it super duper honest, you could set up a "Pinky Swear Authority" that will ensure all the developers are trusted. I nominate myself as the Root.

dude

[circletimessquare]

you're born in new york fucking city and you're fucking complaining about dropping the fucking f-bomb?

fuck!