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In manhattan who was going to open up an entirely new world for us. >> and so we offered albert a deal that if we got the charges dropped, he would have to be an informant fighting cybercrime in the federal governments investigation into shadowcrew. >> when albert agreed to cooperate and became an informant, the idea was to send him back in to the shadowcrew site and introduce a number of us in an undercover capacity so that we could collect our own intelligence and our own information. but ther...

And who did it, and thats how he got into computers. >> and over time, albert became capable of just about anything when it comes to computers, network intrusions, et cetera. >> we learned that albert had been involved in intrusions or attempted intrusions into nasa and to the government of india also. he was 14 years old at the time. >> it became a game to him. >> so what we learned through the debriefings with him was that he was conducting criminal activity through a global criminal website f...

Build cases against them, identify them, and arrest them all at once. >> but these individuals didnt think they could be discovered because there was no physical meetings. >> they thought they couldnt be touched. they thought they were teflon. >> was this person sitting in new york at an internet cafe? were they at a government office in russia? we knew what shadowcrew was doing. we knew how they were doing it. we just didnt know who they were. ing or two. even a- (ernie) lost rubber duckie? (bu...

Clearly. his interaction was more social. we started to worry about him a little bit less, and i think he learned how to get a different high in that cat and mouse game that other informants get of being able to play both sides. so albert was guiding us on it. so we would have conversations and say, lets go do "x." then he would put his brain on top of it and go, no, we need to go do "y." thats not going to work for us. im going to get found out. the whole thing is going to get blown. he was a g...

What was shocking to me is the criminals had no shame and posting about their criminal activity fairly openly. >> information is power. information is the new currency, and you can take any type of information that you can get that youre not supposed to have and use it against people for blackmail. you can use it to profit from. >> you may be arrested for a crime that you didnt commit. >> you dont realize the significance until you become a victim. cybercrime was the level now that was almost ou...

Individuals in the u.s. about a year before albert gonzalezs arrest. >> shadowcrew was a global marketplace for online crime. these hackers are hacking into company systems in order to get access to credit card information of consumers and sell it. all of this was completely new. i mean we had been investigating hackers. most of the time it was solo, lone wolf hackers. and this was now organized criminal groups online. this was identity theft on a scale we had never seen. >> the shadowcrew websi...