US Secret Service Pays Informant Hacker $75,000/Year
March 22, 2010According to a Wire.com article, the hacker that was arrested for breaking into and stealing TJX customer info, and doing the same for Heartland Payment Systems, was paid $75,000 a year for his services as an informant to the Secret Service.
It’s a significant amount of money to pay an informant but it’s not an outrageous amount to pay if the guy was working full time and delivering good results,” says former federal prosecutor Mark Rasch. “It’s probably the only thing he was doing — other than hacking into TJX and making millions of dollars.”
Yeah…that last detail is a little disconcerting. Hm. I would have been happy with the $75,000 a year. And, after the gig ends, set up a consultancy and rack up the fees….
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