Hackers charged after stealing millions of personal records
October 8, 2009 by Sam NarisiPosted in: In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, Security
The recent indictment of a so-called “master hacker” should provide a warning to companies about keeping employees’ and customers’ personal information safe.
Indictments were handed out this week against three hackers who are charged with plundering the servers of some of the nation’s biggest credit card processors. Their haul: the numbers of some 130 million cards.
Only one of the hackers was named: Albert Gonzalez, 28, of Miami, who is alleged to have acted with two others, both of whom are unnamed and reported to be in Russia.
Gonzalez and co. also hacked into the systems of several retailers to steal credit card information when customers paid. After figuring out what kind of machines they were dealing with, corporate systems were hacked using malware Gonzalez is alleged to have provided.
The hackers hid their nefarious deeds by using proxy computers and tested their malware against about 20 leading anti-virus products to see if they could detect the hacking software.
To read more about the indictments, visit here.
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