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Woman Sentenced to 2.5 Years in Prison for ‘Cashing In’ on Hacking Scheme

Sonya Martin, 45, was part of a hacking cell that used sophisticated techniques to break the encryption used by payment processor WorldPay US to protect some 1.5 million worldwide customers payroll debit card accounts. Employers used the debit cards to pay workers instead of issuing paper checks. Martin was sentenced to 2 years, six months in a U.S. prison for taking part in one of the most sophisticated and organized computer hacking and ATM cashout schemes ever perpetrated

Source: https://threatpost.com/woman-sentenced-25-years-prison-cashing-hacking-scheme-082412/76950/

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