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So the success of his entrepreneurial projectThe account is not the prices are too lowTherefore we understand that Parliament has limited strictly as qualified investorBanks are aware of any share says an expertFor each new quarter he won a raise of 1Fear of new social plansIt is a big questionThis group is now seen as a global playerThere is room for a modern social tourism41 despite rather positive feedback to analysts and rating agenciesIt is work competitiveness and better regulated worldComputer hacker Albert Gonzalez, twenty-eight years, is not out of the prison in Brooklyn, New York. Already indicted for "conspiracy to commit computer fraud", on August 5, 2008, by the District Court of Massachusetts, this former FBI informant, operating under the code name "Soupnazi" (a character in the television series "seinfeld"), is now accused of the most extensive attempt of computer fraud ever committed on American soil. According to the indictment of the Prosecutor of the District Court of New Jersey, Ralph Marra, made public Monday, Albert Gonzalez and his two unidentified Russian accomplices allegedly stole confidential data of some 130 million payment cards, between October 2006 and may 2008, with a view to putting in place an extensive network of withdrawals not authorized in the United States and Europe. Although American justice claims to have foiled the manoeuvre, the case reveals the great fragility of the security systems of banks and specialized distribution channels. "The objective of the conspiracy was that those having obtained lots of stolen data distribution in the United States and elsewhere with a view to make fraudulent purchases and withdrawals not authorised banks and financial institutions," said attorney Ralph Marra. According to the investigators, it would be "the largest case of fraud and theft of confidential data never prosecuted by the Department of Justice."
Star of "hacking".
After he was already arrested in 2003 for a fraud of lesser magnitude, Albert Gonzalez, considered to be a star of the "hacking", was committed to working with the FBI to identify his former accomplices in Europe from the East, including Latvia and Ukraine. But it seems that he has secretly resumed contact with them to better target its next victims among the firms of the "Fortune" 500 ranking. In 2008, the US Department of Justice had already incriminated Albert Gonzalez and three of his accomplices: Christopher Scott and Damon Patrick Toey, Maksym Yastremskiy, for the theft of data from some 40 million credit cards issued by various specialized (OfficeMax, Boston Market, Barnes & Noble...) According to the new indictment, the main victims are this time following the chain of stores Hannaford Brothers, 7-Eleven, Heartland Payment Systems operator, and two "major" national distributors from 2007 which payment systems have been infiltrated.
Through a network of computers installed in New Jersey, California, Illinois, Latvia, the Netherlands and Ukraine, accomplices thus entered the computer servers of their victims with "SQL injection attacks" exploiting the flaws of security systems. Although it is proven that Albert Gonzalez has actually transferred data stolen from a Ukrainian server, investigators did not specify the extent of the injury suffered by the victims of the fraud. For experts, this case reveals the growing vulnerability of specialty channels payment systems and banks, whose data are not always encrypted. According to the Nilson Report, 1.6 billion credit cards are in circulation in the United States, including a third party issued by chain stores. Some customers might turn against card issuers for lack of vigilance, a shareholder like just proceedings against Heartland Payment Systems. Already in pre-trial detention since May 2008, the hacker Albert Gonzalez risk a conviction that can go up to thirty-five years of imprisonment.
