Jailed Miami Man Hacked Into 130 Million Credit Card Accounts: Prosecutors

Huffington Post by Devlin Barrett | Aug. 17, 2009 (News Report)

Gonzalez is a former informant for the U.S. Secret Service who helped the agency hunt hackers, authorities say. The agency later found out that he had also been working with criminals and feeding them information on ongoing investigations, even warning off at least one individual, according to authorities.

Gonzalez, who is already in jail awaiting trial in a hacking case, was indicted Monday in New Jersey and charged with conspiring with two other ... Full Story »

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by John Louden - Aug. 17, 2009

Well researched and to the point.

At the time of those charges, officials said the alleged thieves weren’t computer geniuses, just opportunists who used a technique called “wardriving,” which involved cruising through different areas with a laptop computer and looking for accessible wireless Internet signals. Once they located a vulnerable network, they installed so-called “sniffer programs” that captured credit and debit card numbers as they moved through a retailer’s processing networks.

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