Secret Service paid Hacker $75k a year, friend says

This is why hackers are terrorizing America. The government seems totally inept in dealing with the greatest threat to our country:

Convicted TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez earned $75,000 a year working undercover for the U.S. Secret Service, informing on bank card thieves before he was arrested in 2008 for running his own multimillion-dollar card-hacking operation.

That information is according to one of Gonzalez's best friends and convicted accomplices, Stephen Watt.

Watt pleaded guilty last year to creating a sniffer program that Gonzalez used to siphon millions of credit and debit card numbers from the TJX corporate network while he was working undercover for the government.