Let's now take a look at the blah blah program
the software was designed to monitor the data passing through TJX his computer network to sniff out
credit card numbers from the corporation.
The sniffer was later used to steal credit card details from other companies.
A Cuban-American Helberg Gonzalez was the mastermind behind the attack.
Gonzales had been recognized as an expert in the computer system security field before he decided to
set up his own business.
He was also working for several government institutions
Gonzales said about his business by first asking his friend Stephen want to create the bloodless scanner
any viruses and intrusion detection systems failed because blah blah was custom designed.
The software was installed in a TJX network and stole 45 million credit card numbers in two months time
the attack was a huge success.
But let's also pay attention to something that happened in the aftermath
TJX was able to keep their customer base.
The company detected the intrusion after a few months inform their customers of the data breach.
And even paid millions in damages the attack however did not make the business collapse in the following
year record sales and earnings were announced.
This means that we as customers can and will forgive a company when our transaction details including
personal information are poorly protected or compromised.
We'll return to this subject later.
STEPHEN LONG over Gonzales and other members of the conspiracy were arrested and charged pleaded guilty
and has to pay $170 million in restitution.
Albert Gonzalez as the brains and leader of the operation is serving a 25 year prison sentence and will
have to pay $70 million in damages.
Another story worth mentioning is the exploits connected to ads for Chinese penis enlargement pills
a virus dubbed storm worm was created in 2007 and spread as an attachment to e-mails.
If it was launched the woman had a computer and merged it into a zombie net.
Affected machines send penis enlargement spam Mad's
online and businesses are paid for redirected visitor clicks on one of the banners on a page
storm creators made several thousand dollars a day in this way.
And there was always the chance that someone would actually buy they advertise product
a group behind the attack made funding them harder.
Because it attacked the servers of all the anti-virus companies that blocked attachments containing
the virus.
That's it for an overview on different types of cyber criminals.