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Dutch Hacker Sentenced for selling 100,000 credit cards

A Dutch hacker was sentenced to 12 years in a US prison on Friday for trafficking over 100,000 credit card numbers stolen in a computer hacking conspiracy. David Benjamin Schrooten, 22, known as “Fortezza” in the hacker world, pleaded guilty in November to criminal charges related to hacking, bank fraud, and identity theft. At sentencing U.S. District Judge Ricardo S. Martinez asked him, “Did it ever occur to you that you were doing that to all your victims?”

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2013/02/dutch-hacker-sentenced-for-selling_4.html

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