Featured August, 18th 2009 by admin

Alleged TJX hacker spun a wide web of cybercrime

Albert Gonzalez, 28, was the alleged ringleader of a cybercrime enterprise that swiped at least 170 million credit and debit card numbers.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday that Gonzalez, already awaiting trial for the TJX data breach, along with two others were being indicted for five corporate data breaches (ZDNET)

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