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Does everyone agree the guideline sentence recommended for mass credit card hacker "ludicrous"?

By Douglas A. Berman

The question in the title of this post is prompted by this new (and new age?) sentencing story, which is headlined "Hacker Sentenced To Prison for Credit Card Scam."  Here are the interesting basics: A San Francisco man who had more than 1.8 million stolen bank and credit card numbers on his home computers was sentenced Friday to 13 years in federal prison and ordered to repay $27.5 million to the banks and credit card companies he victimized. Max Ray Vision, who legally changed his last name from Butler, had pleaded guilty in June to his role in an online clearinghouse where identity thieves shared stolen information.  A self-taught computer whiz who fell in love with the devices as an 8-year-old boy in his father's computer store, Vision told Senior U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 17, 2010 (boomark / email).