Albert Gonzalez (born 1981) is an American

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and computer criminal who is accused of masterminding the combined

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and subsequent reselling of more than 170 million card and ATM

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from 2005 to 2007: the biggest such fraud in history. Gonzalez and his accomplices used

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to deploy backdoors on several corporate systems in order to launch

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(specifically,

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) attacks which allowed him to steal computer data from internal corporate networks. During his spree, he was said to have thrown himself a $75,000 birthday party and complained about having to count $340,000 by hand after his

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broke. Gonzalez stayed at lavish hotels but his formal homes were modest. He, along with his team, were featured on the 5th-season episode of the

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series ''

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'' titled: " Episode 40: Hackers: Operation Get Rich or Die Tryin’". Gonzalez had three federal indictments. The first was in May 2008 in

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for the Dave & Busters case (trial schedule September 2009). The second was in May 2008 in

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for the

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case (trial scheduled early 2010). The third was in August 2009 in

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in connection with the Heartland Payment case. On March 25, 2010, Gonzalez was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.

Early life and education

Gonzalez bought his first computer when he was 12, and by the time he was 14 managed to hack into NASA. He attended

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, where he was described as the "troubled" pack leader of computer nerds. In 2000, he moved to

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, where he lived for three months before moving to

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According to the indictment, there were 4,000 people who registered with the Shadowcrew.com website. Once registered, they could buy stolen account numbers or counterfeit documents at auction, or read “Tutorials and How-To’s” describing the use of

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in magnetic strips on credit cards, debit cards and ATM cards so that the numbers could be used. Moderators of the website punished members who did not abide by the site's rules, including providing refunds to buyers if the stolen card numbers proved invalid. In addition to the card numbers, numerous other objects of identity theft were sold at auction, including counterfeit passports, drivers’ licenses, Social Security cards, credit cards, debit cards, birth certificates, college student identification cards, and health insurance cards. One member sold 18 million e-mail accounts with associated usernames, passwords, dates of birth, and other personally identifying information. Most of those indicted were members who actually sold illicit items. Members who maintained or moderated the website itself were also indicted, including one who attempted to

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the

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Shadowcrew.cc. The Secret Service dubbed their investigation "Operation Firewall" and believed that up to $4.3 million was stolen, as ShadowCrew shared its information with other groups entitled Carderplanet and Darkprofits. The investigation involved units from the United States,

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and

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. Gonzalez was initially charged with possession of 15 fake credit and debit cards in

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against his cohorts. 19 ShadowCrew members were indicted. Gonzalez then returned to Miami.

TJX Companies hack

While cooperating with authorities, he was said to have masterminded the hacking of

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, in which 45.6 million credit and debit card numbers were stolen over an 18-month period ending in 2007, topping the 2005 breach of 40 million records at CardSystems Solutions. Gonzalez and 10 others sought targets while

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and seeking vulnerabilities in

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s along

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in Miami. They compromised cards at

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, DSW,

Office Max OfficeMax is an American office supplies retailer founded in 1988. It is now a subsidiary of The ODP Corporation, which is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. As of December 2012, OfficeMax operated 941 stores in 47 states, Puerto Rico, the U. ...

Boston Market Boston Market Corporation, known as Boston Chicken until 1995, is an American fast casual restaurant chain headquartered in Golden, Colorado. It is owned by the Rohan Group. Boston Market has its greatest presence in the Northeastern and Midweste ...

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and

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. The indictment referred to Gonzalez by the

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"cumbajohny", "201679996", " soupnazi", "segvec", "kingchilli" and "stanozlolz." The hacking was an embarrassment to TJ Maxx, which discovered the breach in December 2006. The company initially believed the intrusion began in May 2006, but further investigation revealed breaches dating back to July 2005. One of his alleged co-conspirators was Stephen Watt, known in the hacker world as "Unix Terrorist" and "Jim Jones." Watt worked at

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in New York City and wrote the sniffer program.

Arrest

Gonzalez was arrested on May 7, 2008 on charges stemming from hacking into the

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corporate network from a

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location at a restaurant in

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. The incident occurred in September 2007. About 5,000 card numbers were stolen. Fraudulent transactions totaling $600,000 were reported on 675 of the cards. Authorities became suspicious after the conspirators kept returning to the restaurant to reintroduce their hack, because it would not restart after the company computers shut down. Gonzalez was arrested in room 1508 at the National Hotel in

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. In various related raids, authorities seized $1.6 million in cash (including $1.1 million buried in plastic bags in a three-foot drum in his parents' backyard), his laptops and a compact

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. Officials said that, at the time of his arrest, Gonzalez lived in a nondescript house in Miami. He was taken to the Metropolitan Detention Center in

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, where he was indicted in the Heartland attacks.

Co-defendants

Gonzalez had multiple US co-defendants for the

and

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thefts. The main ones were charged and sentenced as follows: * Stephen Watt was charged with providing a data theft tool in an identity theft case. He was sentenced to two years in prison and 3 years of supervised release. He was also ordered by the court to pay back $250,000 in restitution. * Damon Patrick Toey pleaded guilty to wire fraud, credit card fraud, and aggravated identity theft and received a five-year sentence. * Christopher Scott pleaded guilty to conspiracy, unauthorized access to computer systems, access device fraud and identity theft. He was sentenced to seven years.

Heartland Payment Systems hack

In August 2009, Gonzalez was indicted in Newark, New Jersey on charges dealing with hacking into the

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-branded

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ATM's and Hannaford Brothers computer systems. Heartland bore the brunt of the attack, in which 130 million card numbers were stolen. Hannaford had 4.6 million numbers stolen. Two other retailers were not disclosed in the indictment; however, Gonzalez's attorney told StorefrontBacktalk that two of the retailers were J.C. Penney and

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. Heartland reported that it had lost $12.6 million in the attack including legal fees. Gonzalez allegedly called the scheme "Operation Get Rich or Die Tryin." According to the indictment the attacks, by Gonzalez and two unidentified hackers "in or near

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" along with unindicted conspirator "P.T." from Miami, began on December 26, 2007, at

, August 2007 against 7-Eleven, and in November 2007 against Hannaford Brothers and two other unidentified companies. Gonzalez and his cohorts targeted large companies and studied their check out terminals and then attacked the companies from internet-connected computers in New Jersey, Illinois,

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, the

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and

. They covered their attacks over the Internet using more than one messaging screen name, storing data related to their attacks on multiple Hacking Platforms, disabling programs that logged inbound and outbound traffic over the Hacking Platforms, and disguising, through the use of proxies, the

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addresses from which their attacks originated. The indictment said the hackers tested their program against 20 anti virus programs. Rene Palomino Jr., attorney for Gonzalez, charged in a blog on ''The New York Times'' website that the indictment arose out of squabbling among U.S. Attorney offices in New York, Massachusetts and New Jersey. Palomino said that Gonzalez was in negotiations with New York and Massachusetts for a plea deal in connection with the T.J. Maxx case when New Jersey made its indictment. Palomino identified the unindicted conspirator "P.T." as Damon Patrick Toey, who had pleaded guilty in the T.J. Maxx case. Palomino said Toey, rather than Gonzalez, was the ring leader of the Heartland case. Palomino further said, “Mr. Toey has been cooperating since Day One. He was staying at (Gonzalez’s) apartment. This whole creation was Mr. Toey’s idea...It was his baby. This was not Albert Gonzalez. I know for a fact that he wasn’t involved in all of the chains that were hacked from New Jersey.” Palomino said one of the unnamed Russian hackers in the Heartland case was Maksym Yastremskiy, who was also indicted in the T.J. Maxx incident but is now serving 30 years in a

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prison on a charge of hacking Turkish banks in a separate matter. Investigators said Yastremskiy and Gonzalez exchanged 600 messages and that Gonzalez paid him $400,000 through

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. Yastremskiy was arrested in July 2007 in Turkey on charges of hacking into 12 banks in

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. The Secret Service investigation into him was used to build the case against Gonzalez including a sneak and peek covert review of Yastremskiy's laptop in

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in 2006 and a review of the

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of the Latvia computer leased from Cronos IT and alleged to have been used in the attacks. After the indictment, Heartland issued a statement saying that it does not know how many card numbers were stolen from the company nor how the U.S. government reached the 130 million number.

Plea bargain

On August 28, 2009, Gonzalez's attorney filed papers with the

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in Boston indicating that he would plead guilty to all 19 charges in the U.S. v. Albert Gonzalez, 08-CR-10223, case (the TJ Maxx case). According to reports this

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would "resolve" issues with the New York case of U.S. v. Yastremskiy, 08-CR-00160 in

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(the Dave and Busters case). Gonzalez asked for leniency on the grounds that he suffered from

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, and his attorney submitted a report from a psychiatrist describing Gonzalez's actions as “consistent with description of the Asperger’s disorder” and “Internet addiction.” On March 25, 2010, U.S. District Judge

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sentenced Gonzalez to 20 years in prison for hacking into and stealing information from TJX, Office Max, the Dave & Busters restaurant chain, Barnes & Noble and a string of other companies. The next day, U.S. District Court Judge

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sentenced him to 20 years in connection with the Heartland Payment Systems case. The sentences were ordered to run concurrently, meaning that Gonzalez will serve a total of 20 years for both cases. Gonzalez was also ordered to forfeit more than $1.65 million, a condominium in Miami, a blue 2006 BMW 330i automobile, IBM and

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laptop computers, a

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firearm, a

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cell phone, a Tiffany diamond ring and three

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watches. On March 25, 2011, Gonzalez filed a motion in U.S. District Court in Boston to withdraw his guilty plea. He claimed that during the time he committed his crimes, he had been assisting the

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in seeking out international cybercriminals and said his attorneys failed to advise him that he could have therefore used a “public authority” defense. The Secret Service declined to comment on Gonzalez's motion. Gonzalez (inmate number: 25702-050) is currently serving his 20-year sentence at the FMC Lexington, a medical facility. He is scheduled for release August 16, 2023.Inmate locator
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References

External links

* https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2009/08/gonzalez.pdf Heartland Payment Systems * http://fm.cnbc.com/applications/cnbc.com/resources/editorialfiles/2012/04/19/AGS5-E40C1-SKMBT-C45110120712520-v1.pdf {{DEFAULTSORT:Gonzalez, Albert 1981 births People from Kearny, New Jersey People from Miami Hacking (computer security) Living people American people of Cuban descent American white-collar criminals American people convicted of fraud American computer criminals People with Asperger syndrome Carding (fraud) People convicted of cybercrime