NEW YORK -The U.S. Justice Department reveals on Monday that 130 million credit card numbers have been stolen from corporate and social-networking websites in what it calls the largest hacking and identity theft case ever.Three men were indicted on charges of being responsible for five corporate data breaches in a scheme in which the card numbers were stolen from Heartland Payment Systems, 7-Eleven Inc and Hannaford Brothers Co, federal prosecutors said in a statement.
The suspects also hacked two unidentified corporate victims, the U.S. attorney's office in New Jersey said in the statement.
Prosecutors allege Albert Gonzalez, 28, of Miami, and two unnamed Russian coconspirators targeted large corporations by scanning the list of fortune 500 companies and exploring corporate websites before setting out to identify vulnerabilities.
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