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Hackers Indicted in Theft of 130M Credit Cards

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 17, 2009 4:17 PM CDT

(Newser) – Federal prosecutors indicted three hackers in Washington today for allegedly snagging more than 130 million credit card numbers from retail and financial organizations, the Wall Street Journal reports. Calling it the greatest US debit- and credit-card data theft ever, feds hit Albert Gonzalez, 28, of...   Read full story »

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