Stephen Watt, a 25-year-old former Morgan Stanley software engineer, reportedly pleaded guilty last December to creating a custom sniffing program that hackers used to siphon millions of credit and debit card numbers from TJX s network. Watt received a 2 year Federal prison sentence. Target Corp., is investigating a data breach that could end up being one of the biggest retail hacks in U.S. history, reports said. Researchers from ULM University have found a security flaw similar to sidejacking in Google’s Android operating system affecting some 99.7% of the platform’s users.
Source: https://threatpost.com/sniffing-programmer-gets-2-years-jail-tjx-122309/73295/