Credit Card Hacker Sentenced in US

Albert Gonzalez has been jailed for 20 years in the US. Albert Gonzalez is a Computer hacker that hacked over 130m credit and debit cards. Albert Gonzalez the hacker’s case was said to be the largest and most costly example of computer hacking in US history. Albert Gonzalez was once an informant in US Secret Service.

The Albert Gonzalez 28-year-old pleaded guilty to three cases of fraud at his trial last year, sentenced to 20 years for the first two cases on Thursday, and 20 years and one day on Friday for the third. Albert Gonzalez will serve the extra 24 years because the crime had been committed when he was working for the US Secret Service as an informant.

Albert Gonzalez wasn’t alone in all of this he was with two Russian co-conspirators, of hacking into the payment systems of retailers. Together they targeted more than 250 US companies including payment processor Heartland Payment Systems, food and drink store 7-Eleven and American supermarket Hannaford Brothers Co.