Hackers charged after stealing 130 million personal records

The recent indictment of a so-called “master hacker” should provide a warning to companies about keeping employees’ and customers’ personal information safe.
Indictments were handed out this week against three hackers who are charged with plundering the servers of some of the nation’s biggest credit card processors. Their haul: the numbers of some 130 million cards.
Officials only identified one of the culprits: Albert Gonzalez, 28, of Miami, who is alleged to have acted with two others, both of whom are unnamed and reported to be in Russia.
Gonzalez and company also hacked into the systems of several retailers to steal credit card information when customers paid. Corporate systems were hacked using malware Gonzalez is alleged to have provided.
The hackers hid their nefarious deeds by using proxy computers and tested their malware against about 20 leading anti-virus products to see if they could detect the hacking software.
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