Ex-informant indicted in data grab on 130 million credit accounts
Posted: August 18, 2009 at 5:46 a.m.
Federal prosecutors Monday charged a Miami man with the largest case of credit- and debit-card data theft ever in the United States, accusing the one-time government informant of swiping 130 million accounts on top of 40 million he stole previously.
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