Hacker cops to payment card fraud worth more than $36m An American citizen has admitted to stealing data for more than 676,000 payment cards from databases he hacked into and netting more than $100,000 by selling them in underground bazaars online. Rogelio Hackett, 26, of Lithonia, Georgia, pleaded guilty to one count of access device fraud and one count of aggravated identity …
"2001 BMW X5 and a pair of Louis Vuitton shoes".
Typical criminal motivation. And you know, it is just so pathetically petty. Reminds me of Sir Thomas Moore in "A Man For All Seasons when he say, - don't recall exactly, sorry - "The Bible says it profits a man nothing if he sells his souls and gains the world. But for Wales, Richard? For Wales?"
And this clown will do 10 years for the sake of a BMW, a pair of Louis Vuitton shoes, and similar garbage. He deserves those 10 years ten times over.
Thank God most criminals are that stupid, to run off and buy luxury items that'll flag warnings on any tax audit almost immediately. Because if he'd been quietly stowing it away into untraceable off-shore accounts and then emigrated one day, you'd never have heard of him and he *would* live a life in luxury probably in a country that didn't support extradition back to the US, like at least one of the "Great" train robbers did. And that's if the police could even trace it back to him by then (the article suggests they were after a petty criminal and found a major one-man operation they knew nothing about).
Greed is behind most crimes, when you think about it, whether it's greed for money, power or whatever. The sensible criminals could easily never have to work ever again and never have to steal ever again after their "big" job, but they always come back to have one last pop out of greed and usually end up getting caught because of that.
...did it not say he had been doing this kind of thing for 20 years (or did I misread?). If that's the case. After getting away with it for so long he probably got complacent and sloppy. Still, it serves the bugger right. I still question the morality of a legal system whereby a theft, even one as large as this, can often equate to a sentence greater than that for rape or murder.
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