Albert Gonzalez, Hacker, Named In Heartland Credit Card Breach

Albert Gonzales is a 28 year-old hacker from Miami who is charged, along with two unnamed Russians, with participating in the Heartland Credit Card Breach, the largest identity theft case to reach American courts. Latinos, it’s our year! Gonzales and co. managed to hack into Heartland Payment Systems, the world’s ninth largest credit processing company, to steal more than 130 million credit and debit card numbers. Overachievers all.

Learning From the Heartland Credit Card Breach [PCW]