TJX Hacker Was Awash in Cash; His Penniless Coder Faces Prison

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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/06/watt/

TJX Hacker Was Awash in Cash; His Penniless Coder Faces Prison
By Kim Zetter
June 18, 2009

Accused TJX hacker kingpin Albert Gonzalez called his credit card theft 
ring Operation Get Rich or Die Tryin.

He spent $75,000 on a birthday party for himself and once complained that 
he had to manually count $340,000 in pilfered $20 bills because his 
counting machine broke. But while Gonzalez apparently lived high off 
ill-gotten gains, a programmer who claims he earned nothing from the 
scheme sits broke and unemployed, his career in shambles, while awaiting 
sentencing for a piece of software he crafted for his friend.
swatt

These and other new details have emerged in court documents filed in the 
case of 25-year-old Stephen Watt, a minor participant in what the feds are 
calling the largest identity theft in our Nations history.

The documents include a sentencing memorandum filed by prosecutors seeking 
five years in prison and three years of court supervision for Watt, and a 
counter-argument from attorneys representing the New York man.

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