In recent news of data theft in the United States, a man is charged with stealing data related to nearly 130 million credits and debit cards and termed it as the biggest identity theft in the American history. The man named Albert Gonzalez age 28 and his two Russian associates hacked into the payment systems of retailers, including the 7- Eleven chain.

They were planning to sale off that data, if convicted Gonzalez can face prison up to 20 years in jail for wire fraud and five years for conspiracy and would have to pay a fine of $250,000 for each of two charges.

In order to get into the card details, SQL Injection Attack was the technique used by Gonzalez. After identifying a specific deficiency in the security of the database a specially designed code is thus inserted into the network to access card details and a consumer can hardly protect his data. Edward Wilding a fraud investigator told it to be standard way to access personal data.

In order to steal data, the group researched thought the credit and debit card systems used by their victims and attacked their networks and then transferred data to computer servers they kept for operation at California, Illinois, Latavia, the Netherlands and Ukraine.   Gonzalez earlier used to be an informant with the US Secret Service to track hackers and is under custody on separate charges on stealing into the computer systems of a national restaurant chain and other eight retailers thus stole data related to 40 million credit cards.

Mr Gonzalez, who had once been an informant for the US Secret Service helping to track hackers, is already in custody on separate charges of hacking into the computer systems of a national restaurant chain and eight major retailers, including TJ Maxx, involving the theft of data related to 40 million credit cards.