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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