Hackers have set: they have done anything wrong

Irving Jose Escobar seemed nothing more than a child in Miami judge tough sheet. But last year has pleaded guilty for his role in a multi-one million U.S. dollar scam in Florida in connection with the use of Gonzales.

What is more often based on charges in separate cases, are key roles in cyberheist massive TJX, parent of retailers TJ Maxx and Marshall and credit card fraud, it leads. First disclosed by TJX in January 2007, he is considered the largest such theft.

Albert Gonzalez appeared to be a reformed hacker. But former government informant was a central character in what Justice Department officials claim was an international crime syndicate in cybernated space that ripped from the tens of millions of credit card numbers and debiti major U.S. retailers.

It is unclear whether Gonzalez and Escobar know each other. But each was involved in several scams that are linked to TJX, according to their charges. In discordant history attackers Gonzalez and streetwise Escobar represent the book at the large digital crime. According to psychiatrists, hackers and computer security experts, they represent the vanguard of cybercrooks: young, misguided males who rationalize that they have done something wrong..

27-year-old Cuban American, Gonzalez was arrested in 2003 in credit card fraud charges in New Jersey and agreed to cooperate with authorities to avoid jail. The Secret Service, Gonzalez helped agents infiltrate Shadow Crew, an online network of credit card thieves.

But it does not prevent him from later heading a ring that the evaluation of more than 40 million credit card numbers and debiti TJX and eight other major retailers, the U.S., according to federal charges. He faces life imprisonment if convicted on charges of computer fraud, wire fraud, access device fraud, aggravated identity theft and conspiracy, court spokeswoman said. Gonzalez has pleaded not guilty in September. 11 arraignment in Boston federal court.

Like Escobar and Gonzalez, many are innocent Adam. "This is not rattle rattle snakes," says Greg Saathoff, a professor at the University of Virginia psikiatrisë, which is a world leader profiles of criminals. "The film is a portrait is evil geniuses that have absolute control and calculated, but they can be creative and grandiose."