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Final Conspirator in Credit Card Hacking Ring Gets 5 Years
Damon Patrick Toey, the “trusted subordinate” to TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez, was sentenced in Boston on Thursday to 5 years in prison. He also received a $100,000 fine and three year’s supervised release, according to the Justice Department. Toey, 25, helped Gonzalez breach the networks of numerous companies through SQL injection attacks in 2007 and 2008 and also served as a vendor selling stolen card data.
Continue reading »Unprecedented 25-Year Sentence Sought for TJX Hacker
Computer hacker Albert Gonzalez deserves a quarter-century behind bars for leading a gang of cyberthieves who stole tens of millions of credit and debit card numbers from a transaction processor and several giant retail chains, federal prosecutors argued in a court filing Thursday night. “[T]he sentences would be the longest ever imposed in an identity theft case and among the longest imposed for a financial crime, which is appropriate because Gonzalez was at the center of the largest and most costly series of identity thefts in the nation’s history,” wrote Boston-based Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Heymann.
Continue reading »Record 13-Year Sentence for Hacker Max Vision
PITTSBURGH — A skilled San Francisco computer intruder was sentenced here Friday to 13 years in federal prison for stealing nearly two million credit card numbers from banks, businesses and other hackers — in what is the longest hacking sentence in U.S. history. Max Ray Vision, 37, was also ordered to pay $27.5 million in restitution, and to serve five years under court supervision following his release, during which time he’ll be allowed to use computers only for legitimate employment or education.
Continue reading »7-Eleven Hack From Russia Led to ATM Looting in New York
Flashback, early 2008. Citibank officials are witnessing a huge spike in fraudulent withdrawals from New York area ATMs — $180,000 is stolen from cash machines on the Upper East Side in just three days. After a stakeout, police arrest one man walking out of a bank with thousands of dollars in cash, and 12 reprogrammed cards. A lucky traffic stop catches two more cashers who’d driven in from Michigan.
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