Tonernews.com, April 26, 2010. USA
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=368926
OFFICEMAX HACKER GETS 20 YEARS
A Miami computer hacker was sentenced to 20 years in prison
for leading the largest U.S. identity-theft ring, stealing 130 million
credit- and debit-card records from Naperville-based OfficeMax,
Heartland Payment Systems Inc. and other companies.
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A Miami computer hacker was sentenced to 20 years in prison
for leading the largest U.S. identity-theft ring, stealing 130 million
credit- and debit-card records from Naperville-based OfficeMax,
Heartland Payment Systems Inc. and other companies.
Albert
Gonzalez, 28, was sentenced in federal court in Boston for pleading
guilty to thefts from Heartland, 7-Eleven Inc., Delhaize Group’s
Hannaford Brothers Co. and two unidentified national retailers.
Prosecutors, who filed the case in New Jersey and transferred it to
Boston, said the crimes caused hundreds of millions of dollars in
losses.
Another judge sentenced Gonzalez yesterday to 20 years
for the theft of 40 million credit- and debit-card records from
retailers including TJX Cos., OfficeMax Inc. and BJ’s Wholesale Club
Inc. The sentence for those crimes, filed in New York and Boston, will
run at the same time as the term imposed today.