Credit Card Hijacker sentenced to 20 Years

A Florida man’s home was sentenced to 20 years in prison for hijacking credit cards. Penalties are assessed for not deserve half the battle, millions of credit card data was stolen and millions of dollars had been taken away by Albert Gonzales (28) were from various banks.

“This is an example of computer hacking acts largest and most expensive in U.S. history,” said Patti Saris, a trial judge in the Court of Boston, Thursday (25/3/2010). Nonetheless, the punishment is still lighter than the demands of prosecutors, 25 years.

In addition, as part of this demand, in September 2009, Gonzalez also had to return the money of one million U.S. dollars which he kept in a container, a condominium in Miami, a BMW 330i year 2006, a Tiffany diamond ring and Rolex watches.

Gonzales and two colleagues from Russia, was caught after stealing 130 million credit card numbers or debit cards from various banks, financial institutions, and retail shops. More than 250 banks and financial institutions have become its victims. In this case, Gonzales as a provider of computer servers used two colleagues to do the piracy over the Internet with malware.

He is currently also facing different demands for retail services hijack systems to steal credit and debit card data customers. He did it with wardriving techniques, bring a laptop in his car and running around hotspot network that emanated retail service victim to infiltrate the system.

In court, Gonzales had time to defend himself that what he did because of the curiosity of a very large and the drug as the effects of autism called Aspenger syndrome. However, the reason was rejected prosecutors.

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