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Albert Gonzalez (born 1981) is an American computer hacker and computer criminal who is accused of masterminding the combined credit card theft and subsequent reselling of more than 170 million card and ATM numbers from 2005 through 2007—the biggest such fraud in history. Gonzalez and his accomplices used SQL injection to deploy backdoors on several corporate systems in order to launch packet sniffing (specifically, ARP Spoofing) attacks which allowed him to steal computer data from internal corporate networks. During his spree he was said to have thrown himself a $75,000 birthday party and complained about having to count $340,000 by hand after his currency-counting machine broke. Gonzalez stayed at lavish hotels but his formal homes were modest.〔()〕 Gonzalez had three federal indictments: *May 2008 in New York for the Dave & Busters case (trial schedule September 2009) *May 2008 in Massachusetts for the TJ Maxx case (trial scheduled early 2010) *August 2009 in New Jersey in connection with the Heartland Payment case. On March 25, 2010, Gonzalez was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison. Gonzalez along with his crew were featured on the 5th season episode of the CNBC series American Greed titled:Episode 40: Hackers: Operation Get Rich or Die Tryin’.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Case File: Operation Get Rich or Die Tryin' )〕 ==Early life== Gonzalez's parents, who had immigrated to the United States from Cuba in the 1970s, bought him his first computer when he was 8. He attended South Miami High School in Miami, Florida, where he was described as the "troubled" pack leader of computer nerds.〔 In 2000 he moved to New York City where he lived for three months before moving to Kearny, New Jersey.〔Meek, James Gordon; and Siemaszko, Corky. ("'Soupnazi' hacker Albert Gonzalez went from nerdy past to life of sex, guns and drugs" ), ''Daily News (New York)'', August 19, 2009. Accessed March 28, 2011. "After graduation, Gonzalez moved north to Manhattan and lived on the East Side for three months in 2000 before setting up shop in Kearny, N.J., records show. It was while living there in an anonymous garden apartment with mostly senior citizens as neighbors that Gonzalez was busted for hacking in 2003."〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Albert Gonzalez」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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