follow-up: Final Conspirator in Credit Card Hacking Ring Gets 5 Years

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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/04/toey_sentence

By Kim Zetter
Threat Level
Wired.com
April 15, 2010

Damon Patrick Toey, the 'trusted subordinate' of TJX hacker Albert 
Gonzalez, was sentenced in Boston on Thursday to 5 years in prison.

He also received a $100,000 fine and three years. supervised release, 
according to the Justice Department.

Toey, 25, helped Gonzalez breach the networks of numerous companies 
through SQL injection attacks in 2007 and 2008 and also served as a vendor 
selling stolen card data. Upon his arrest in May 2008, he provided 
information that investigators say likely helped persuade Gonzalez to 
plead guilty last year to what prosecutors are calling the most serious 
and largest identity-theft crimes ever prosecuted.

Toey was the last of six U.S. defendants sentenced for the crimes. In all, 
federal judges have handed out nearly 38 years against Gonzalez and his 
crew, with Gonzalez getting the stiffest sentence by far.

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