Albert Gonzalez is a hacker mastermind who has committed a lot of crimes by stealing credit and debit cards by major US retailers. He has been described as a greed personality motivated by his ego and his thirst for acknowledgment by the public for his computer intrusions. Among his criminal activities he used to exploit a government agency through his cooperation with the U.S. Secret Service providing classified information to his co-conspirators in the credit-card theft cases. How ever, the most difficult hacking operation he has ever successfully accomplished was stealing credit card information from TJX, Office Max, DSW and Dave and Buster’s. Although, he has passed the message of stealing private accounts and ruin credit cards, he used hacking for beneficial purposes.
Gonzalez has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. He managed to steal more than 1 million dollars. However is impossible to measure the exact amount of stolen money per person. After his sentence expired he will be supervised for not using for 3 years the Internet and the use of any electronic device will be monitored. The court tried to send a message through this trial to the young people not to attempt doing things like Gonzalez did.
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