Reply #4: Hacker Albert Gonzales charged with largest ID theft ever involving 130M credit, debit cards

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Source: NY Daily News

WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors on Monday charged a Miami man with the largest case of credit and debit card data theft ever in the United States.

Authorities said Albert Gonzales, 28, has broken his own record for identity theft by hacking into more retail networks to steal data from 130 million accounts.

Gonzales, who is already in jail awaiting trial in a hacking case, was indicted Monday in New Jersey, charged with conspiring with two other unnamed suspects to steal the private information.

Prosecutors say Gonzales, who is also known online as "soupnazi," targeted customers of convenience store giant 7-Eleven Inc., and supermarket chain Hannaford Brothers, Co. Inc. They also targeted Heartland Payment Systems, a New Jersey-based card payment processor.

Gonzales is awaiting trial in New York for allegedly helping hack the computer network of the national restaurant chain Dave and Buster's. Trial in that case is due to begin next month.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2009/08/17/200...




Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2009/08/17/200...