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"Hacker Gets 20 Years in Largest Identity-Theft Case"

By Douglas A. Berman

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The title of this post is the headline of this Bloomberg news report. Here are the details: Miami man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for charges linked to computer hacking in what prosecutors called the largest identity-theft case in U.S. history. Albert Gonzalez, 28, who had worked as a federal informant, admitted last year he led an international ring that stole 40 million credit- and debit-card records from U.S. retailers including TJX Cos.,OfficeMax Inc. and BJ?s Wholesale Club Inc. U.S. District Judge Patti Saris ordered Gonzalez to also serve three years? probation and pay a $25,000 fine, while declining to give him the maximum 25-year sentence prosecutors sought. Gonzalez, a high-school graduate, pleaded guilty to charges laid out in indictments in federal courts in Boston and New York stemming from his computer hacking...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 25, 2010 (boomark / email).

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