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2. Albert Gonzalez - Wikipedia

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   Albert Gonzalez (born 1981) is an American computer hacker, computer criminal and police informer, [1] who is accused of masterminding the combined credit card theft and subsequent reselling of more than 170 million card and ATM numbers from 2005 to 2007, the biggest such fraud in history.

3. Heartland Payment Systems - Wikipedia

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   On January 20, 2009 Heartland announced that it had been "the victim of a security breach within its processing system in 2008". [8] The data stolen included the digital information encoded onto the magnetic stripe built into the backs of credit and debit cards; with that data, thieves can fashion counterfeit credit cards by imprinting the same stolen information onto fabricated cards. [9]

4. Heartland data breach involves millions of customer transactions

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   With all the earnest concern of a 2-year-old with milk on his chin, Heartland Payment Systems, a credit transaction processor for over 250,000 businesses, has reported a mighty considerable data ...

5. Scary Cyberattacks that Hacked Millions of Users - AOL

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   The breach was first discovered by a web security consultant, who alerted Exactis and the FBI. ... Credit-card payment processor Heartland revealed in 2008 that 130 million customers' debit- and ...

6. Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard - Wikipedia

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   However, a 2008 breach of Heartland Payment Systems (validated as PCI DSS-compliant) resulted in the compromising of one hundred million card numbers. Around that time, Hannaford Brothers and TJX Companies (also validated as PCI DSS-compliant) were similarly breached as a result of the allegedly-coordinated efforts of Albert Gonzalez and two ...

7. Heartland Payment Systems Popped: What You Need to Know - AOL

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8. Carding (fraud) - Wikipedia

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   Gonzalez's 2008, intrusion into Heartland Payment Systems to steal card data was characterized as the largest ever criminal breach of card data. [66] Also in June 2005, UK-based carders were found to be collaborating with Russian mafia and arrested as a result of a National Hi-Tech Crime Unit investigation, looking into Eastern European crime ...

9. Questions Regarding Security Breach May Sink Global Payments

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