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...your credit-card information was stolen recently, there's a decent chance it fell into the hands of Albert Gonzalez. The infamous computer hacker was indicted along with two unnamed co-conspirators in a New Jersey court on Aug. 17 for the alleged theft of some 130 million card numbers. The crime is believed to be the largest retail-store theft in U.S. history. Although little is known about Gonzalez's personal life, he has a long history of hacking and has been known to operate on both sides of the law. (Read "A Brief History of Cybercrime...
...According to the Aug. 17 indictment, Gonzalez teamed up with two Russian programmers to hack into corporate computer networks and install "malware," or malicious software, that allowed them to steal data...
...always thought he was Russian." - An unnamed member of the identity-theft community, saying no one realized that "CumbaJohny" and "Segvec" were the same person (Wired.com, Aug...
...This guy worked very, very hard at something he was very good at." - Assistant U.S. Attorney Erez Liebermann of the Justice Department's New Jersey branch (Newsday, Aug...
...Syrian counterpart, President Bashar Assad, in recent weeks, requesting that Syria use all its influence with Tehran to free Afshar and Reiss. French officials now suspect Iran will mete out some symbolic legal ruling allowing the pair to return to France - perhaps before the start of Ramadan on Friday, Aug. 21. International media reports say a hastily organized visit by Assad to Iran has been planned for this week - presumably to secure Reiss and Afshar's freedom. (See pictures of Sarkozy celebrating Bastille...