If your gonna post long links, it is best to put the link in between the less than sign and greater than sign < > If not you will get the results like http://www.walletpop.com/credit/article/albert-gonzalez-charged-with-the ft-of/625932 Should now look like this with the les than greater than signs. Or use tinyurl.com <http://www.walletpop.com/credit/article/albert-gonzalez-charged-with-th eft-of/625932> -----Original Message----- From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of ml Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 12:18 PM To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: IMPORTANT NOTE IF YOU HAVE/USE CREDIT CARD(S)!!!!!!! Thanks.. usually those links that are very long won't copy adequately to my email. I get only the first line and then nothing. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Schoon" <gamemaster@xxxxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 8:45 AM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: IMPORTANT NOTE IF YOU HAVE/USE CREDIT CARD(S)!!!!!!! > Try this: > > http://www.walletpop.com/credit/article/albert-gonzalez-charged-with-the ft-o > f/625932 > > or the TinyURL version: http://tinyurl.com/qtvmpu > > In the original message, the link was there and complete, but it wrapped > and > that's why it didn't work. > > ----- > Tim > > > -----Original Message----- > From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of ml > Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 10:21 AM > To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: IMPORTANT NOTE IF YOU HAVE/USE CREDIT > CARD(S)!!!!!!! > > wellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll... I didn't find a complete link on the > whole page. Maybe it's the way it was received? Sometimes things get > messed > > up in the transporting. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Larry Southerland" <larrysoutherland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <the_bullhorn2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <thebullhornsbest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 8:36 PM > Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- IMPORTANT NOTE IF YOU HAVE/USE CREDIT > CARD(S)!!!!!!! > > >> Content-Type: text/plain; >> charset="us-ascii" >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >> > http://www.walletpop.com/credit/article/albert-gonzalez-charged-with-the ft-o >> f/625932 >> >> >> >> >> Feds Bust Biggest Identity Theft Ring >> >> >> By DEVLIN BARRETT >> >> , >> >> AP >> >> posted: 15 HOURS 10 MINUTES AGO >> >> filed under: Crime News <http://news.aol.com/main/crime> , National News >> <http://news.aol.com/nation> , Credit Cards >> <http://www.walletpop.com/credit/credit-cards> >> >> >> > <http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100014629x1207153240x1200375227/aol?redir =htt >> > p://www.walletpop.com/credit/article/albert-gonzalez-charged-with-theft- of/6 >> 25932> Print <javascript:void(0)> Share >> >> Text SizeA <javascript:void(0)> A <javascript:void(0)> A >> >> WASHINGTON (Aug. 17) - Federal prosecutors on Monday charged a Miami man >> with the largest case of credit and debit card data theft ever in the >> United >> States, accusing the one-time government informant of swiping 130 million >> accounts on top of 40 million he stole previously. >> >> <javascript:oKE.pgPopUp('walletpop-credit_topidthefts')> Top Data >> Breaches >> >> <javascript:oKE.pgPopUp('walletpop-credit_topidthefts')> >> >> Scott Barbour, Getty Images >> >> 5 photos >> >> >> >> <javascript:oKE.pgPopUp('walletpop-credit_topidthefts')> Previous >> >> >> >> <javascript:oKE.pgPopUp('walletpop-credit_topidthefts')> Next >> >> On Aug. 17, federal investigators announced what is said to be the >> largest >> identity theft ring in U.S. history. Thieves targeted more than 130 >> million >> credit and debit card numbers used at 7-Eleven stores, supermarket chain >> Hannaford Brothers and those processed by Heartland Payment Systems. >> Heartland, coincidentally, suffered another major breach just last year. >> >> (Note: Please disable your pop-up blocker) >> >> > http://xml.channel.aol.com/xmlpublisher/fetch.v2.xml?option=expand_relat ive_ >> > urls&dataUrlNodes=uiConfig,feedConfig,entry&id=539197&pid=539196&uts=125 0594 >> 715 >> >> http://cdn.channel.aol.com/cs_feed_v1_6/csfeedwrapper.swf >> >> Top Data Breaches >> >> On Aug. 17, federal investigators announced what is said to be the >> largest >> identity theft ring in U.S. history. Thieves targeted more than 130 >> million >> credit and debit card numbers used at 7-Eleven stores, supermarket chain >> Hannaford Brothers and those processed by Heartland Payment Systems. >> Heartland, coincidentally, suffered another major breach just last year. >> >> Scott Barbour, Getty Images >> >> Scott Barbour, Getty Images >> >> >> >> > <http://www.walletpop.com/credit/article/albert-gonzalez-charged-with-th eft- >> of/625932?feeddeeplinkNum=0> >> >> Top Data Breaches >> >> >> On Aug. 17, federal investigators announced what is said to be the >> largest >> identity theft ring in U.S. history. Thieves targeted more than 130 >> million >> credit and debit card numbers used at 7-Eleven stores, supermarket chain >> Hannaford Brothers and those processed by Heartland Payment Systems. >> Heartland, coincidentally, suffered another major breach just last year. >> >> Scott Barbour, Getty Images >> >> The Checkfree attack announced in January 2009 exposed 5 million records >> and >> came at the hand, apparently, of Ukrainian hackers. >> >> Checkfree Corp. / Fiserv >> >> The data breach at the Bank of New York Mellon Shareowner Services >> involved >> 12.5 million records and was the top breach in 2008. >> >> BNY Mellon Shareowner Services >> >> Hannaford Bros. Supermarkets had a computer system breach that exposed >> 4.2 >> million records in 2008, the second-highest tally of the year. >> >> Stephan Savoia, AP >> >> The data breach at Countrywide in 2008 was only the fifth largest of the >> year, with 2 million records exposed, but the company has had such bad >> headlines in recent times that the bad news only hit harder. >> >> Richard A. Brooks, AFP / Getty Images >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Albert Gonzalez, 28, broke his own record for identity theft by hacking >> into >> retail networks, according to prosecutors, though they say his illicit >> computer exploits ended when he went to jail on charges stemming from an >> earlier case. >> >> Gonzalez is a former informant for the U.S. Secret Service who helped the >> agency hunt hackers, authorities say. The agency later found out that he >> had >> also been working with criminals and feeding them information on ongoing >> investigations, even warning off at least one individual, according to >> authorities. >> >> Gonzalez, who is already in jail awaiting trial in a hacking case, was >> indicted Monday in New Jersey and charged with conspiring with two other >> unnamed suspects to steal the private information. Prosecutors say the >> goal >> was to sell the stolen data to others. >> >> How much of the data was sold and then used to make fraudulent charges is >> unclear. Investigators in such cases say it is usually impossible to >> quantify the impact of such thefts on account holders. >> >> Prosecutors say Gonzalez, who is known online as "soupnazi," targeted >> customers of convenience store giant 7-Eleven Inc. and supermarket chain >> Hannaford Brothers, Co. Inc. He also targeted Heartland Payment Systems, >> a >> New Jersey-based card payment processor. >> >> According to the indictment, Gonazalez and his two Russian coconspirators >> would hack into corporate computer networks and secretly place "malware," >> or >> malicious software, that would allow them backdoor access to the networks >> later to steal data. >> >> Gonzalez faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of the new charges. >> His >> lawyer did not immediately return a call for comment. >> >> Gonzalez is awaiting trial next month in New York for allegedly helping >> hack >> the computer network of the national restaurant chain Dave and Buster's. >> >> The Justice Department said the new case represents the largest alleged >> credit and debit card data breach ever charged in the United States, >> based >> on a scheme that began in October 2006. >> >> Gonzalez allegedly devised a sophisticated attack to penetrate the >> computer >> networks, steal the card data, and send that data to computer servers in >> California, Illinois, Latvia, the Netherlands and Ukraine. >> >> Also last year, the Justice Department announced additional charges >> against >> Gonzalez and others for hacking retail companies' computers for the theft >> of >> approximately 40 million credit cards. At the time, that was believed to >> be >> the biggest single case of hacking private computer networks to steal >> credit >> card data, puncturing the electronic defenses of retailers including T.J. >> Maxx, Barnes & Noble, Sports Authority and OfficeMax. >> >> Prosecutors charge Gonzalez was the ringleader of the hackers in that >> case. >> >> At the time of those charges, officials said the alleged thieves weren't >> computer geniuses, just opportunists who used a technique called >> "wardriving," which involved cruising through different areas with a >> laptop >> computer and looking for accessible wireless Internet signals. Once they >> located a vulnerable network, they installed so-called "sniffer programs" >> that captured credit and debit card numbers as they moved through a >> retailer's processing networks. >> >> Gonzalez faces a possible life sentence if convicted in that case. >> >> Restaurants are among the most common targets for hackers, experts said, >> because they often fail to update their antivirus software and other >> computer security systems. >> >> Scott Christie, a former federal prosecutor now in private practice in >> New >> Jersey, said the case shows that despite the best efforts by companies to >> protect data privacy, there are still individuals capable of sneaking in. >> >> "Cases like this do cause companies to sit up and take notice that this >> is > >> a >> problem and more needs to be done," said Christie. >> >> Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. 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