Name
: Albert Gonzalez
Nickname
: The leader of a hacker group known as
Shadow Crew
Case
:
He
collected over 170 million credit card and ATM card numbers over a period of 2
years
This
group would go on to steal 1.5 million credit card numbers and sell them online
for profit. Shadow Crew also fabricated fraudulent passports, health insurance cards,
and birth certificates for identity theft crimes totaling $4.3 million stolen.The
big bucks wouldn’t come until later, when Gonzalez hacked into the databases of
TJX Companies and Heartland Payment Systems for their stored credit card
numbers.
What happen to them :
Gonzalez was sentenced to prison for
20
years (2 sentences of 20 years to be served out simultaneously).
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