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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...
...Charged with hacking into retail and card-processing computers to steal 130 million credit- and debit-card numbers from 2006 to 2008. The compromised companies include Heartland Payment Systems, 7-Eleven, two unnamed national retailers and Hannaford Brothers, a regional supermarket chain...
...Arrested in New Jersey in 2003 while working as an administrator for the underground, 4,000-member website Shadowcrew.com, on which hackers swapped stolen credit-card information...
...Heartland Payment Systems, which processes credit-card data for more than 250,000 businesses, accounts for most of the 130 million numbers cited in the New Jersey indictment. The company has thus far spent $12.6 million in legal costs and fines associated with the security breach...
...been easily married," he says. "But parents are thinking twice now about whether a person is reliable or not." Janakiraman briefly considered moving back to India to look for a good match, but he's been lucky so far, at least in the professional department. He received his green card recently and is considering a move to New York...