Barclays Bank programmer jailed
(17 March 2010 – USA) A former Barclays Bank programmer has been sentenced to four years in jail for assisting the infamous TJX hacker launder funds stolen through the theft of tens of millions of payment card details.
Humza Zaman was sentenced to 46 months in prison for his involvement in the string of attacks on several firms, including TJX and Heartland Payment Systems.
Mr Zaman laundered between US$600,000 (A$657,000) and US$800,000 for the infamous cyber hacker Albert Gonzalez, who has plead guilty to the attacks and faces up to 17 years in jail, Mr Zaman also received three years supervised released and a fine for US$75,000.
According to court documents, Mr Gonzalez requested he be paid for card numbers in digital currency or by wire to a bank account in Latvia.
Mr Zaman reportedly used the ATM cards, linked to a fictitious or related individual, to withdraw the funds before sending the money, less a reported ten percent cut, to the hacker in Miami.
Mr Zaman also made a number of trips to personally retrieve the cash, withdrawn by cash mules, before shipping it to Mr Gonzalez.
In 2008, Mr Zaman sent Mr Gonzalez the ATM system logs from Barclays, where he was working as a network security manager and a programmer, to see if they would be useful in further illegal activity.
Mr Zaman laundered between US$600,000 (A$657,000) and US$800,000 for the infamous cyber hacker Albert Gonzalez, who has plead guilty to the attacks and faces up to 17 years in jail, Mr Zaman also received three years supervised released and a fine for US$75,000.
According to court documents, Mr Gonzalez requested he be paid for card numbers in digital currency or by wire to a bank account in Latvia.
Mr Zaman reportedly used the ATM cards, linked to a fictitious or related individual, to withdraw the funds before sending the money, less a reported ten percent cut, to the hacker in Miami.
Mr Zaman also made a number of trips to personally retrieve the cash, withdrawn by cash mules, before shipping it to Mr Gonzalez.
In 2008, Mr Zaman sent Mr Gonzalez the ATM system logs from Barclays, where he was working as a network security manager and a programmer, to see if they would be useful in further illegal activity.
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