http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/04/patrick-toey/ By Kim Zetter Threat Level Wired.com April 14, 2010 If TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez had gone to trial instead of pleading out, one man would have been the primary witness against him - accomplice Damon Patrick Toey. Toey, identified often in court documents simply as 'PT,' provided information that investigators say likely helped persuade Gonzalez to plead guilty last year to multiple crimes, which prosecutors are calling the most serious and largest identity-theft crimes ever prosecuted. Toey, 25, will on Thursday become the last of six U.S. defendants sentenced for the crimes. The others include Gonzalez, Christopher Scott, Humza Zaman, Jeremy Jethro and Stephen Watt. Other, unidentified Eastern European hacking accomplices are presumed to be still at large. Gonzalez received three concurrent sentences last month, amounting to 20 years in prison for his role in the hacks of TJX, Hannaford Brothers, Heartland Payment Systems and others, which resulted in the theft of more than 200 million credit- and debit-card numbers. After his arrest, Gonzalez led investigators to a stash of more than $1 million in cash buried in a barrel in his parents. backyard. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2010 - Dubai, the premier deep-knowledge network security event in the GCC, featuring keynote speakers John Viega and Matt Watchinski! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2010dxb/Received on Wed Apr 14 2010 - 22:23:14 PDT
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