hacker, which was upheld by a federal appeals court in 2006. Rasch notes that it was the FBI, not the Secret Service, that foiled the attack.īut Rasch says the revelations raise enough questions of potential entrapment for Salcedo to attempt a court challenge to his nine-year prison sentence - at the time, the longest sentence for any U.S. It's unlikely that the Secret Service instructed Gonzalez to threaten Salcedo, and the agency may have been unaware that its informant was even dealing with the Lowe's hackers, says Mark Rasch, a former Justice Department cybercrime prosecutor. Salcedo pleaded guilty without even looking at the thousands of pages of "discovery" in the case - the government's evidence.Īnother source involved in the Lowe's hack independently confirmed Salcedo's account, and said that SoupNazi cultivated the impression that he was connected to organized crime, and demanded that Salcedo go through with the attack. According to court records, Lowe's detected an intrusion and called in the FBI, who staked out the Southfield store's parking lot and eyeballed Salcedo and his partner working from a Pontiac Grand Prix. The hackers' downfall was seemingly straightforward.
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Over the course of weeks, they used their foothold to penetrate Lowe's servers at stores across the country, where they eventually planted software that would sniff and store customer credit card numbers as they flew from cash registers to a processing server in North Carolina. Salcedo and another hacker had parked outside a Lowe's in Southfield, Michigan and tapped into the store's unsecured WiFi network. *Photo: Mecklenburg County Sheriff.*Salcedo, 25, is serving a record-breaking nine-year prison term for a 2003 intrusion into Lowe's corporate network. Four years after pleading guilty to an abortive scheme to steal customer credit card numbers from the Lowe's hardware chain, hacker Brian Salcedo learned from prison last week that a co-conspirator who pressured him to go through with the hack attack was working for the feds at the time.īrian Salcedo in an undated mugshot.
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