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Carder Pleads Guilty to Fraud Involving $36 Million in Losses
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 04:04:57 -0500 (CDT)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org> http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/04/rogelio-hackett-guilty/ By Kim Zetter Threat Level Wired.com April 21, 2011 A hacker and carder has pleaded guilty to trafficking in more than half a million stolen card numbers that resulted in $36 million in fraud losses. Rogelio Hackett, Jr., 26, pleaded guilty Thursday in Virginia to one count of access device fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. The hacker was arrested in 2009 for selling stolen bank card numbers in online criminal forums and IRC chatrooms. When authorities searched his home at the time, they found more than 675,000 stolen credit card numbers on his computers and in e-mail accounts. According to court records (.pdf), more than $36 million in fraudulent transactions have been attributed to the stolen numbers found in Hackett?s possession. Authorities don?t say how many of these transactions were committed by him or by others. Hackett, who hails from Lithonia, Georgia, admitted that he had been hacking computers since the late 1990s, an activity that morphed into hacking-for-profit by 2002 when he began stealing bank card data from SQL databases. In August 2007, for example, he breached the server at an unnamed online ticket seller and stole information on about 360,000 credit card accounts. He still had the data on his computer two years later when authorities searched his home. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss-discuss Mailing List (dataloss-discuss () datalossdb org) Archived at http://seclists.org/dataloss/ Unsubscribe at http://datalossdb.org/mailing_list Learn encryption strategies that manage risk and shore up compliance. Download Article 1 of CREDANT Technologies' The Essentials Series: Endpoint Data Encryption That Actually Works http://credant.com/campaigns/realtime2/gap-LP1/
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