TJX hacker sentenced to 20 years

A computer hacker has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for helping engineer one of the largest thefts of credit and debit card numbers in US history.

http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2010/03/tjx_hacker_sent.html

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Thursday, March 25, 2010