US prosecutors have indicted 3 computer hackers on suspicion of stealing data from 130 million credit and debit card accounts, the largest data theft ever in the United States.
The Justice Department said on Monday that Albert Gonzalez and 2 other suspects hacked into computer networks, including those of convenience store giant Seven-Eleven and a New Jersey-based card payment processing company, to steal the private information of cardholders.
The department believes that the suspects sent stolen data to computer servers in the Netherlands, Ukraine and Latvia to fraudulently use the information.
Observers say it may take a long time to uncover the full scope of the data theft and learn how much of the data was actually used.
最終更新：2009年08月19日 08:11
