ecommerce news
Home > News > Ecommerce News > Credit Card Hacker Sentenced to 20 Years

Credit Card Hacker Sentenced to 20 Years

The dangers of online shopping were thoroughly underlined in the USA recently, following the sentencing to 20 years in prison of Albert Gonzalez.

Gonzalez took part in the online hacking of more than 90 million credit and debit card numbers from major retailers such as TJ Maxx, for which he was arrested last summer.

Gonzalez's prison term may be extended further as another judge will now sentence him on charges of stealing tens of millions more payment card details from companies including payment card processor Heartland Payment Systems, 7-Eleven and the Hannaford chain of New England grocery stores in America.

Mark Rasch, the former head of the computer crimes unit at the US Department of Justice, said that it was the harshest sentence ever handed down for a computer crime in an American court.

Assistant US attorney Stephen Heymann said that Gonzalez and his co-conspirators had caused in excess of $200 million in damages to those businesses affected, but that it was impossible to quantify exactly how much money was stolen from individuals.

Heymann said: “He shook a portion of our financial system. What matters most is that teenagers and young adults not look up to Albert Gonzalez. They need to know that they will be caught. That they will be punished and that the punishment will be severe.”
ecommerce news
Quantum Web Solutions Ltd, Quantum House, 14 the Square, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY1 1LH.
Company Registration No: 07156820 | © Quantum Web Solutions Ltd 2010
 ecommerce news
ecommerce news
SEARCH QUANTUM
Portfolio
Quantum Web Facebook Page Quantum Web Facebook Page
ecommerce news
ecommerce news