December 23, 2009, 10:46AM
Sniffing Programmer Gets 2 Years Jail for TJX
Stephen Watt, a 25-year-old former Morgan Stanley software engineer,
pleaded guilty last December to creating a custom sniffing program
dubbed “blabla” that Albert Gonzalez and other hackers used to siphon millions
of credit and debit card numbers from TJX’s network; Watt received a 2 year Federal prison sentence. Read the full article. [Wired]
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