follow-up: TJX Hacking Conspirator Gets 4 Years

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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/03/tjx-conspirator-sentenced-to-46-month/

By Kim Zetter
Threat Level
Wired.com
March 11, 2010

Humza Zaman, a co-conspirator in the hack of TJX and other companies, was 
sentenced Thursday in Boston to 46 months in prison and fined $75,000 for 
his role in the conspiracy. The sentence matches what prosecutors were 
seeking.

Zaman, a 33-year-old former programmer at Barclays Bank, was charged with 
laundering between $600,000 and $800,000 for hacker Albert Gonzalez, who 
is currently awaiting sentencing on charges that he and others hacked into 
TJX, Office Max, Heartland Payment Systems and numerous other companies to 
steal data on more than 100 million credit and debit card accounts.

Zaman pleaded guilty in April to one count of conspiracy. His sentence 
includes three years of supervised release with the condition that Zaman 
must disclose his conviction to any future employer. Upon release, Zaman 
will not be barred from using computers.

Zaman is the second conspirator in the TJX case to be charged. Former 
Morgan Stanley coder, Stephen Watt, was sentenced in December to two years 
in prison for his role in the TJX case, which involved supplying Gonzalez 
with a sniffer program used to siphon card data from the TJX network.

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