On Dec. 26, 2007, Albert Gonzalez, a 28-year-old resident of Miami, launched an attack against the database servers of Heartland Payment Systems, kicking off one of the most successful computer crimes in history. By the end of the attack, Gonzalez walked away with more than 130 million credit card numbers, pilfered directly from the systems of Heartland, one of the world’s largest credit card companies.

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Published in BizTech Magazine on 6/28/11