U.S. authorities announced what they believed to be the largest
hacking and identity theft case ever prosecuted on Monday in a scheme
in which more than 130 million credit and debit card numbers were
stolen.
Three men were indicted on charges of being responsible for five
corporate data breaches in a scheme in which the card numbers were
stolen from Heartland Payment Systems, 7-Eleven Inc and Hannaford
Brothers Co, federal prosecutors said in a statement.
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