Aug 20, 2009
That just may be the tip of the iceberg as the details of this latest cybercrime unravel.
On Tuesday, Albert Gonzalez and two others were indicted on charges of stealing more than 130 million payment card numbers, the largest hacking and identity theft case ever prosecuted in the U.S. Ironically, he is accused of breaching several retailer’s networks, which were already compliant with the Payment Card Industry’s Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) – a set of comprehensive requirements put into place in 2006 by American Express, MasterCard, Visa and other credit card companies to force businesses to better protect credit and debit card information from thefts like those committed by Gonzalez and other hackers over the years.
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