She lobbied to be assigned to Operation Firewall, and in 2003 she was.
This casher served two years in prison thanks to Operation Firewall.
"Albert was an educator," she said, describing their experience on Operation Firewall.
Called Operation Firewall, it was run out of a makeshift office in an Army repair garage in Jersey City.
Maybe the most valuable cybercrime informant it had ever employed, the key to Operation Firewall, was now being investigated.
BY THE TIME Gonzalez returned to Miami after Operation Firewall, in late 2004, he was already exploring the vulnerability of corporate wireless networks.
The text said, "Contact your local United States Secret Service field office... before we contact you!" By the time she was 35, thanks to Operation Firewall and Gonzalez, Peretti was the Justice Department's chief prosecutor of cybercrime in Washington.
A front-page article on Saturday about a data-security breach at CardSystems Solutions, a credit card processor, misidentified the agency that oversaw a computer crime investigation called Operation Firewall, which ended with the arrests of data theft suspects last year.
In October 2004, the agency concluded Operation Firewall, an 18-month investigation into members of the Shadowcrew Web site, where blocks of purloined card numbers, known as dumps, were bought and sold.
In the wake of Operation Firewall — and the expanding wave of credit card theft emanating from south Florida — the Secret Service began to focus on how the members of Shadowcrew and other carders were obtaining stolen credit card data.
