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>> we started to realize that the only way for us to really have an impact was to take over the website so that we could basically destroy the entire criminal network. and in this world, administrations ran the site. they were the bosses. so we needed albert to get promoted up through the ranks to become an admin. his ability to talk to the hacking world and our ability to give him the direction he needed elevated him very, very quickly through shadow crew. and he ultimately started gaining more...

And so unfathomable and they were completely anonymous. >> so what we learned through the briefings with him, shadow crew was started about a year before albert gonzalez arrest. >> shadow crew 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 is new. most of the time it was solo hackers and now its organized criminals online. this is identity theft on a scale weve never...

Assigned to us and that attorney was kim peretti. >> in 2003 i was working at the department of justices computer crime section in washington d.c. >> kim had a very challenging job in that she had to take this information and put it in a way to convince the jury, judges and others that that case should be prosecuted. >> it was exciting and it was something we needed to figure out how to investigate. it was all new territory. so in the bunker, there was a large room with computer screens where th...

That quite frankly couldnt refu refuse. if he helped us as an inform pa -- info pant, we would help him. >> what did you want him to do? >> take down shadow crew. we call it the mother standard of care. its how we care for our patients- like job. his team at ctca treated his cancer

One of the great examples i recall is taking the handle that someone used an online nickname and running it in google to discover that they had also used that online name to sell their fathers car online. so we were able to piece together pieces from the physical world with the criminal world to ultimately identify who they were. >> it was very much a cat and mouse game. but how we really broke the case was the vpn. vpn is a virtual private network that encrypts your internet activity, which mea...

Albert was a gold mine. >> and so now, the ultimate goal is to take the top targets, build cases against them, identify them and arrest them all at once. >> 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 shadow crew was doing and how, we just didnt know who they ...

Became aware of a hacking organization called shadow crew. never in my wildest dreams did i think in 2003, 2004 we would find one person in manhattan that would open up an entirely new world for us. >> we offered albert a deal that if we got the charges dropped, he would have to be an inform pant fighting cybercrime in the federal governments investigation into shadow creek. >> when albert agreed to cooperate and became an info informa informant, the idea was to send him back into the shadow cre...

Wallet. >> what they refer to as full info where nod only did you have the card number, but you had everything about the victims identity, where they lived, their social security number. >> there were tutorials, for instance, about what countries to go to that dont have extradition treaties, how to hack with anonymity. the criminals had no shame in posting about their criminal activity fairly openly. >> so this case started when the secret service tracked a man stealing money from an atm. how di...

He didnt bother to check it out. he didnt say, well, wait a minute, can this really be true about my ambassador? basically, these two ukrainian-born businessmen got a line into him through giuliani. they fed him a bunch of lies, and he went for it, hook, line, and sinker. we have a very large intelligence apparatus in this country who could have told him whether the charges were true or not. he didnt care. >> yeah, thats exactly what weve learned. susan glasser, thank you. i appreciate you joini...