follow-up: Court Rejects Request to Consolidate TJX Hacker Cases

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By Kim Zetter
Threat Level
Wired.com
December 10, 2009

A federal judge in Massachusetts has rejected a request from U.S. 
attorneys to consolidate a New Jersey case against Albert Gonzalez, who 
has admitted hacking more than 120 million credit card numbers from 
Heartland Payment Systems, with two other cases against him in 
Massachusetts.

Gonzalez, a former Secret Service informant known by the online nicks 
"segvec" and "Cumbajohnny," was charged in New Jersey in August with 
stealing more than 130 million debit and credit cards. The feds say 
Gonzalez, along with two unnamed Russian hackers, stole the card from New 
Jersey-based card processor, Heartland Payment Systems, and networks for 
Hannaford Brothers, 7-Eleven and two other unnamed national retailers.

Gonzalez and 10 others were also charged in May 2008 in New York and in 
August 2008 in Massachusetts with network intrusions into TJX, OfficeMax, 
the Dave & Busters restaurant chain and other companies. Gonzalez pleaded 
guilty to these charges in August and was scheduled to be sentenced in 
Massachusetts on Dec. 21 in both cases. He is expected to get a sentence 
of between 15 to 25 years in those cases.

On Monday, Gonzalez's New Jersey attorney filed a document with the court 
indicating that his client had agreed to plead guilty to the charges in 
that state as well. Federal prosecutors requested the New Jersey case be 
moved to Massachusetts to be consolidated with the two other cases against 
Gonzalez.

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