The New York Times' James Verini wrote up the misadventures of hacker Albert Gonzales, who was apparently giving up his black hat past to help the Secret Service snare other criminals.
He wasn't. Over the course of several years, during much of which he worked for the government, Gonzalez and his crew of hackers and other affiliates gained access to roughly 180 million payment-card accounts from the customer databases of some of the most well known corporations in America
His 20-year sentence is the longest handed to an American for computer crimes, according to the piece. [NYT Mag]
