NJ U.S. Attorney Files Charges in ‘Largest Reported Data Breach'

["Ali, Saqib" <docbook.xml () gmail com>]

http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2009/08/17/nj-us-attorney-files-charges-in-historys-largest-reported-data-breach/

"The Indictment alleges that Gonzalez and the coconspirators employed
numerous techniques to hide their hacking efforts and data breaches.
For example, they allegedly accessed the corporate websites only
through intermediary, or “proxy,” computers, thereby disguising their
own whereabouts. They also tested their malware by using approximately
twenty of the leading anti-virus products to determine if any of those
products would detect their malware as potentially unwanted.
Furthermore, they programmed their malware to actively delete traces
of the malware’s presence from the corporate victims’ networks.

Upon stealing the credit and debit card data, Gonzalez and the
coconspirators would seek to sell the data to others who would use it
to make fraudulent purchases, make unauthorized withdrawals from banks
and further identity theft schemes."



saqib
http://kawphi.blogspot.com

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