Hacker Sentenced to 20 Years for Breach of Credit Card Processor
BOSTON — Convicted TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez was sentenced to 20 years and a day, and fined $25,000 on Friday for his role in breaches into Heartland Payment Systems, 7-Eleven and other companies. The...
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TJX Accomplice Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison
BOSTON — A hacker who helped TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez and others gain access to corporate networks was sentenced to 7 years and one day on Monday. Christopher Scott, 27, pleaded guilty to breaching...
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Government Stops Shielding Corporate Breach ‘Victims’
For the past few months, national retailer J.C. Penney has been fighting an under-seal court battle to keep you from knowing that its payment card network was breached by U.S. and Eastern European...
View ArticleProsecutors Seek 6-Year Sentence for TJX Hacker’s ‘Trusted’ Accomplice
If TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez had gone to trial instead of pleading out, one man would have been the primary witness against him — accomplice Damon Patrick Toey. Toey, identified often in court...
View ArticleFinal Conspirator in Credit Card Hacking Ring Gets 5 Years
Damon Patrick Toey, the “trusted subordinate” of TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez, was sentenced in Boston on Thursday to 5 years in prison. He also received a $100,000 fine and three years’ supervised...
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Coder Journeys From Wall Street to Prison
More than a month has elapsed since the years-long investigation and prosecution of TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez came to a dramatic end, with Gonzalez sentenced to 20 years in prison for the largest...
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Ukrainian Carding King ‘Maksik’ Was Lured to Arrest
A Ukrainian carder who earned more than $11 million selling credit and debit card data stolen from top U.S. retailers was lured to a meeting in Turkey in 2007 where he was arrested by local...
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2010: The Year the Internet Went to War
It was a year without parallel. Threat Level’s bread-and-butter themes of censorship, hacking, security, privacy, copyright and cyberwar were all represented in tug-of-war struggles with unprecedented...
View ArticleIn Surprise Appeal, TJX Hacker Claims U.S. Authorized His Crimes
Albert Gonzalez, the hacker who masterminded the largest credit card heists in U.S. history, is asking a federal judge to throw out his earlier guilty pleas and lift his record-breaking 20-year prison...
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Caught in the System, Ex-Hacker Is Stalked by His Past
Before the suspects were identified in the Boston Marathon bombings, a U.S. probation officer and his supervisor visited the Manhattan apartment of programmer Stephen Watt with a question: Did Watt...
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