Stephen Watt, who wrote the sniffer program used in the TJX credit card heist, has been jailed for two years and ordered to pay $171.5 million in restitution.

"Watts was part of a gang led by Alberto Gonzalez that captured more than 40 million credit and debit card records from TJX and other retailers between 2003 and 2007," writes The Register's John Leyden. "The gang typically used the insecure wireless networks of retail branches to launch deeper attacks on corporate systems, ultimately targeting credit card databases."

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