Alberto Gonzalez was widely credited with leading the largest financial data security breach ever against Heartland Payment Systems in 2008, but the U.S. alleged on Thursday that was but one of many data thefts perpetrated by hackers associated with him.
Paul Fishman, the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, and other U.S. authorities indicted five Russians with charges of having coordinated and perpetrated data breaches and thefts against NASDAQ, 7-Eleven, Carrefour, JCP, Hannaford, Heartland, Wet Seal, Commidea, Dexia, JetBlue, Dow Jones, Euronet, Visa Jordan, Global Payment, Diners Singapore and Ingenicard.
Fishman was careful to specify that alleged hack against NASDAQ did not affect its trading platform. The indictment alleged the combined theft stole card data from 160 million card accounts.
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