This guy snitched hackers, while being the BIGGEST one behind the scenes 💀

Albert Gonzalez started hacking young, got into computers early and even broke into systems like NASA as teen by the early 2000s
He was deep in the carding world, buying and selling stolen credit card data, in 2003 he got caught doing basic ATM cash outs with fake cards in New Jersey
Instead of going down, he became a Secret Service informant and even helped take down a major carding forum with thousands of users
But while working with them, he was running his own operation on a much bigger level
He used SQL injection, packet sniffing, and weak Wi-Fi to break into company systems and steal card data
His biggest hits were TJX, Heartland (130M cards) + other retailers and payment systems with a total of 170M+ card details stolen, hundreds of MILLIONS in losses
he lived luxury buying Rolexes, BMW, condo, designer everything, even buried $1M+ cash in his parent’s backyard🤯
In 2008 he got arrested, Investigators tracked him and exposed his double life,
He pleaded guilty and got 20 years in prison, one of the longest cybercrime sentences ever