Hannaford hacker pleads guilty
A hacker charged with stealing data from major retailers and organizing the Hannaford data breach could spend up to 25 years in jail.
Albert Gonzalez pled guilty Tuesday at the U.S. District Court in Boston to hacking into the computer servers of Scarborough-based Hannaford Bros. Co. and stealing information on 4.2 million credit and debit cards, according to the Associated Press. The 28-year-old Florida man and former federal informant also pleaded guilty to hacking into 7-Eleven and New Jersey-based credit card processor Heartland Payment Systems Inc., as well as two unnamed companies. In September, Gonzalez pleaded guilty to stealing data from major retailers TJX Cos., BJs Wholesale Club, OfficeMax, BostonMarket, Barnes & Noble and Sports Authority. Gonzalez was indicted for the Hannaford breach in August.
Gonzalez is scheduled for sentencing in March, and his lawyer plans to argue that he should spend fewer than 25 years in jail considering his prior drug use and a psychiatrist's report that he may have Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism, according to the AP.
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