http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/11/business/theft.php By Brad Stone International Herald Tribune August 12, 2008 SAN FRANCISCO: Investigators looking into a vast international credit card theft ring extending from Ukraine and Belarus to China and victimizing nine of the largest U.S. retailers faced a central mystery: Who was orchestrating the crimes on the ground in the United States? It turned out, investigators now say, that he was right under their noses. And it was a reference to a character in the popular U.S. comedy "Seinfeld" - the Soup Nazi - that helped break the case. Albert Gonzalez, 27, a second-generation Cuban-American from Miami, was a seemingly reformed hacker turned U.S. Secret Service informant, helping agents identify his former cohorts in the shady online underworld where stolen credit and debit card numbers are bought and sold. But using of variety of online handles, including "soupnazi," Gonzalez remained a significant player in that underworld, investigators say. U.S. government officials allege that Gonzalez played a central role in a loosely organized online crime syndicate that fraudulently obtained the credit and debit card numbers of tens of millions of American consumers. [...] __________________________________________________ Visit Defcon Pics - Defcon Memory Repository http://www.defconpics.orgReceived on Tue Aug 12 2008 - 23:22:02 PDT
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