Carder Pleads Guilty to Fraud Involving $36 Million in Losses

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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.

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