A previously convicted Maple Grove (Minnesota) computer hacker has been sentenced to five years in prison for stealing credit card information from thousands of victims to add to restaurant gift cards and then selling them on Craigslist. (Editor's Note: It's about time some of these sentences starting getting a little harsher Mann.)
Zachary W. Mann, 22, sentenced Tuesday in Minneapolis, pleaded guilty in June to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
According to Mann's plea agreement, he stole credit card account information over the Internet from individuals over a three-month period early last year.
Mann obtained the credit card information from thousands of victims by hacking into an Internet-based order processing server. He then added to gift cards he bought for small amounts at restaurants. He then would sell the inflated gift cards on Craigslist.
According to the plea agreement, Mann committed these offenses while he was on supervised release in connection with a December 2006 federal conviction for conspiracy to commit computer fraud and aggravated identity theft in Florida.
In that case, Mann admitted tapping personal information on actor Laurence Fishburne(Editor's Note: Within the fraud "Matrix"I couldn't help but notice how much more apropos it would be if they said Laurence was Phish-Burned by this Mann)and other celebrities but denied that what he and his cohorts did was wrong.
Mann stole less than $10000, a few dollars here and there from multiple victims. Christopher Kelly, a grown man, who was the fundraiser for Blogoyavich, just got 3 years for much much more money stolen from the IRS. Yes, Mann was on his second offense, (one committed at age 17, yet the feds chose to wait until he was age 18 to charge him. Make the sentence suit the crime, give the nonviolent federal offenders the same good time off, that state murderers, sex offenders, and armed robbers get. My two cents.
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Maple Grove hacker gets 5 years for stealing credit card data
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Mann stole less than $10000, a few dollars here and there from multiple victims. Christopher Kelly, a grown man, who was the fundraiser for Blogoyavich, just got 3 years for much much more money stolen from the IRS. Yes, Mann was on his second offense, (one committed at age 17, yet the feds chose to wait until he was age 18 to charge him. Make the sentence suit the crime, give the nonviolent federal offenders the same good time off, that state murderers, sex offenders, and armed robbers get. My two cents.