Hacker named Hackett Caught with 675,000 Credit Card Accounts Pleads Guilty

There once was a Hacker named Hackett...

Ga. hacker caught with 675K credit card accounts (from Yahoo News at 4-22-2011) 10 years in Prison...Can he hack it? A computer hacker from Georgia pleaded guilty Thursday to fraud and identity theft after authorities found more than 675,000 stolen credit card accounts on his home computers. Credit card companies have traced more than $36 million in fraudulent transactions to the accounts that were breached by Rogelio Hackett Jr., 26, of Lithonia, Ga. Court documents indicate that Hackett built a reputation for himself as a teenager in the hacking community and had been stealing account information for r... read more»

Hacker Pleads Guilty To Credit Card Fraud; Faces 10 Years (from International Business Times at 22-4-2011) A hacker has pleaded guilty to trafficking in counterfeit credit cards and aggravated identity theft; which resulted in cumulative losses of $36 million. U.S. Secret Service agents found 675,000 stolen credit card numbers and related information in the computers and email accounts of Rogelio Hackett Jr., 26, of Lithonia, Ga. Hackett has agreed to take a plea charge and cooperate with authorities. According to the court filing, Hackett is not taking a plea in exchange for testimony about anyon... read more»

US hacker pleads guilty to credit card theft (from Yahoo News at 22-4-2011) A 26-year-old computer hacker pleaded guilty on Thursday to stealing hundreds of thousands of credit card numbers, causing losses of more than $36 million. Rogelio Hackett, of Lithonia, Georgia, entered the plea in an Alexandria, Virginia court, the Justice Department said in a statement. US Secret Service special agents found more than 675,000 stolen credit card numbers in Hackett's computers and email accounts during a 2009 search of his home, the department said.... read more»

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