JC Penney Identified as Hacking Victim

JC Penney was one of the victims of notorious computer hacker Albert Gonzalez, according to unsealed documents made available on by a federal judge in Boston. Penney, which during Gonzalez' trial had asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts to bar the government from disclosing its identity, was revealed in the documents to be the company that had been known throughout the trial as "Company A."

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