http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/12/gonzalez-heartland-plea By Kim Zetter Threat Level Wired.com December 8, 2009 Admitted TJX intruder Albert Gonzalez has entered into a plea agreement on charges that he hacked into Heartland Payment Systems, Hannaford Brothers, 7-Eleven and two other unnamed national retailers. The revelation comes in a filing made by Gonzalez's attorney in U.S. District Court in New Jersey, where the Heartland charges were filed in August. A federal judge on Tuesday officially transferred the New Jersey case to Massachusetts, where Gonzalez is seeking to merge it with two other cases in which he’s already pleaded guilty. Gonzalez, a former Secret Service informant known by the online nicks "segvec" and "Cumbajohnny," was charged in New Jersey in August, along with two unnamed Russian hackers. They were accused of stealing more than 130 million debit and credit cards from card-processing company Heartland and the other target companies. Gonzalez and 10 others were also charged in May 2008 in New York and in August 2008 in Massachusetts with network intrusions into TJX, OfficeMax, Dave & Busters restaurant chain and other companies. Gonzalez pleaded guilty to these charges in August and was scheduled to be sentenced in Massachusetts on Dec. 21 in both cases. [...] ________________________________________ Did a friend send you this? From now on, be the first to find out! Subscribe to InfoSec News http://www.infosecnews.orgReceived on Tue Dec 08 2009 - 23:08:45 PST
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