The Great Cyberheist
James Verni recounts the chilling and deceptive cybercrime wave created by mastermind Alberto Gonzalez in a New York Times Magazine article. As Verni notes, “Gonzalez, law-enforcement officials would discover, was more than just a casher. He was a moderator and rising star on Shadowcrew.com, an archetypal criminal cyberbazaar that sprang up during the Internet-commerce boom in the early 2000s. Its users trafficked in databases of stolen card accounts and devices like magnetic strip-encoders and card-embossers; they posted tips on vulnerable banks and stores and effective e-mail scams.”
