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Three Alleged Hackers Indicted in Large Identity-Theft Case

August 18 , 2009 – The Washington Post - A federal grand jury has indicted three people on charges of hacking into the files of the credit and debit card processing giant Heartland Payment Systems last year in what the Justice Department is calling the largest identity-theft case ever prosecuted.

According to indictments returned Monday in a New Jersey federal court, the government says the same three people were involved in a string of high-profile data breaches from October 2006 to May 2008, including intrusions at grocery chain Hannaford Brothers and 7-Eleven.

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