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Advertisements  Accused credit card hacker lived large in Miami
Industry analysts marveled at the scope of the operation — which
Gonzalez allegedly dubbed “Get Rich or Die Tryin’.” One compared
it to a hackers’ version of the 1980s gangster movie “Scarface.”
(Page 2 of 2)  It’s unclear what transpired between the time
Gonzalez got that job and his first federal arrest. In 2003,
Gonzalez was arrested for hacking but not charged because
authorities said he became an informant, helping the Secret
Service hunt other hackers.  Skip to next paragraph  Palomino
said Gonzalez should have gotten therapy then for what he says
was a computer “addiction” — but that authorities used him like
a machine to ferret out hackers.  Yet over the next five years,
authorities said, Gonzalez continued to hack into the computer
systems of Fortune 500 companies even while providing assistance
to the government. A judge allowed him to move from New Jersey
back to Florida