CyberATTACK August, 19th 2009 by admin

Gonzales just tip of iceberg in Heartland attack

Albert Gonzales, previously accused of breaking into TJX’s computer systems, was indicted on charges that a separate group he was involved in breached Heartland Payment Systems. Also indicted but unidentified and still at large were “Hacker 1″ and “Hacker 2,” labels that suggest Thing 1 and Thing 2 from “The Cat in the Hat” (and indeed Gonzales bears an uncanny resemblance to those life-hackers).

USA Today reports that Hacker 1 and Hacker 2 were likely expert hackers who did the actual SQL injection attacks on the servers. (ZDNet)

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