Secret Service Paid TJX Hacker $75,000 a Year

I really should have gotten a degree in hacking.

Convicted TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez earned $75,000 a year working undercover for the U.S. Secret Service, informing on bank card thieves before he was arrested in 2008 for running his own multimillion-dollar card-hacking operation.

The information comes from one of Gonzalez’s best friends and convicted accomplices, Stephen Watt. Watt pleaded guilty last year to creating a sniffer program that Gonzalez used to siphon millions of credit and debit card numbers from the TJX corporate network while he was working undercover for the government.

via Secret Service Paid TJX Hacker $75,000 a Year | Threat Level | Wired.com.

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Betty Says:

March 24, 2010 at 6:11 am

Gonzalez. Was he here illegally or was he just doing a job no one else wanted?

mcnorman Says:

March 24, 2010 at 6:19 am
I am angry. The Secret Service thinks that this is chump change. They also paid for the girlfriend expenses of another thief.

ProudMilitaryMom Says:

March 24, 2010 at 10:08 am

Secret Service, guards the Pres, boss is taxfree timee? Not surprising at all at all- wonder which one of the Chicago gang he pissed off?
Maybe in all his hacking he uncovered something somebody would rather have kept quiet???

mcnorman Says:

March 24, 2010 at 10:46 am
Perhaps he found the birth certificate.

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