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Windows 7: Secret Service paid hacker $75k a year

24 Mar 2010   #1

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A Finnish immigrant in Leipzig, Germany
 
 
Secret Service paid hacker $75k a year

Quote   Quote: Originally Posted by CNN
(Wired) -- 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.

That information is according to 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.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/ptech/03/24/secret.service.hacker/index.html?hpt=T2

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24 Mar 2010   #2

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I'm glad he was caught.
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