U.S. authorities announced what may be the largest case of computer theft of banking data carried in this country. More than 130 million credit card numbers and debit were stolen by a 'cracker' of 28 years of Miami and two Russian accomplices.
Albert Gonzales, a computer 28 years of Miami, and colleagues have been accused of breaking into the databases of five companies. The numbers were stolen from Heartland Payment Systems (a system for processing card payments) and chain stores 7-Eleven Inc and Hannaford Brothers Co . He faces 20 years in prison and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines.
According to prosecutors, Gonzales and his two buddies, who have not been identified, went to the largest companies and explored their corporate websites to identify their weaknesses.
The information was then sent as ervidores operating in several U.S. states and in the Netherlands and Ukraine , having found a way to cover their tracks cracked the computer systems.
Once collected the data, the suspects tried to sell the data to others who use them to make fraudulent purchases.
First, the criminals went to establishments to identify the payment type of equipment they used. "From October 2006, Gonzales and his conspirators investigated the systems of credit and debit cards used by their victims; devised a sophisticated attack [a 'SQL Injection'] to penetrate their networks and steal data from credit and debit cards , and then sent the data to servers operating in California, Illinois, Latvia, Netherlands and Ukraine, " indicates Justice Department in a note.
Gonzales is in jail since 2008 awaiting trial for his involvement in two cases: one in New York for violating the chain system restaurants, one in the State of Massachusetts (northeast) for data theft 40 million credit cards in the computer systems of eight major stores .
From: delitosinformáticos.com
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