A man from Florida was sentenced to 20 years in prison for hijacking a credit card. The punishment is considered appropriate because it is not half-hearted, millions of credit card data has been stolen and millions of dollars have been stolen actor named Albert Gonzales (28) from various banks.
"This is an example of computer hacking acts largest and most expensive in U.S. history," said Patti Saris, the judge who put him on trial in the Court of Boston, Thursday (25/3/2010). However, the sentence was lighter than the prosecutor's demand, ie 25 years.
In addition, as part of this suit, in September 2009, Gonzalez should return the money of one million U.S. dollars which he kept in a container, a condo in Miami, a 2006 BMW 330i, a Tiffany diamond ring and Rolex watches.
Gonzalez and two Russian colleagues caught after stealing 130 million credit card numbers or debit cards of various banks, financial institutions and retail stores. More than 250 banks and financial institutions have become victims. In this case, Gonzales as a provider of computer servers used two colleagues to conduct piracy over the Internet with malware.
He is currently also facing different charges for retail service system hijacked to steal credit and debit card data customers. It does so by wardriving techniques, bring a laptop in his car and drive around looking for a hotspot networks emitted retail service potential victims to infiltrate the system.
"This is an example of computer hacking acts largest and most expensive in U.S. history," said Patti Saris, the judge who put him on trial in the Court of Boston, Thursday (25/3/2010). However, the sentence was lighter than the prosecutor's demand, ie 25 years.
In addition, as part of this suit, in September 2009, Gonzalez should return the money of one million U.S. dollars which he kept in a container, a condo in Miami, a 2006 BMW 330i, a Tiffany diamond ring and Rolex watches.
Gonzalez and two Russian colleagues caught after stealing 130 million credit card numbers or debit cards of various banks, financial institutions and retail stores. More than 250 banks and financial institutions have become victims. In this case, Gonzales as a provider of computer servers used two colleagues to conduct piracy over the Internet with malware.
He is currently also facing different charges for retail service system hijacked to steal credit and debit card data customers. It does so by wardriving techniques, bring a laptop in his car and drive around looking for a hotspot networks emitted retail service potential victims to infiltrate the system.
In court, Gonzales could defend himself that what he did was great curiosity and addictive as the impact of autism called Aspenger syndrome. However, the reason was rejected prosecutors.
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