Showing posts with label credit card theft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label credit card theft. Show all posts

Monday, July 25, 2011

Hacker Hackett sentenced to 10 years

Good article at SecurityWeek on the case of a professional identity thief sentenced to 10 years in prison:

http://www.securityweek.com/hacker-caught-675k-stolen-credit-cards-gets-maximum-prison-sentence

The best part is his name: Hackett. Phonetically, that would be pronounced "Hack - It". 10 years and a $100,000 fine for having 675,000 stolen credit card numbers which investigators believe led to more than $36 million in fraudulent transactions. It appears he had been working in his profession for about 7 years before being caught.