Tuesday, 17 September 2013

ALBERT GONZALEZ





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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