Secret Service paid hacker $75k a year

[Kari]

(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

 

[CarlTR6]

I'm glad he was caught.