[ISN] Carder Pleads Guilty to Fraud Involving $36 Million in Losses

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 03:45:34 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/04/rogelio-hackett-guilty/

By Kim Zetter 
Threat Level
Wired.com
April 21, 2011

A hacker and carder has pleaded guilty to trafficking in more than half 
a million stolen card numbers that resulted in $36 million in fraud 
losses.

Rogelio Hackett, Jr., 26, pleaded guilty Thursday in Virginia to one 
count of access device fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft.

The hacker was arrested in 2009 for selling stolen bank card numbers in 
online criminal forums and IRC chatrooms. When authorities searched his 
home at the time, they found more than 675,000 stolen credit card 
numbers on his computers and in e-mail accounts. According to court 
records (.pdf), more than $36 million in fraudulent transactions have 
been attributed to the stolen numbers found in Hackett’s possession. 
Authorities don’t say how many of these transactions were committed by 
him or by others.

Hackett, who hails from Lithonia, Georgia, admitted that he had been 
hacking computers since the late 1990s, an activity that morphed into 
hacking-for-profit by 2002 when he began stealing bank card data from 
SQL databases. In August 2007, for example, he breached the server at an 
unnamed online ticket seller and stole information on about 360,000 
credit card accounts. He still had the data on his computer two years 
later when authorities searched his home.

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