Barclays Bank programmer jailed for four years

Zaman was also ordered to pay a fine of $75,000

A former programmer for Barclays bank has been sentenced to four years in prison for his part in a series of data thefts including the now infamous data breach of US retailer TJX in 2007, according to new reports.

Humza Zaman, 33, was ordered to pay a fine of $75,000 and will be under three years of court supervision upon his release after being sentenced by a federal court in Boston, according to a Computerworld report.

He pleaded guilty to a series of offences including money laundering, unlawful access to computers, identity theft and wire fraud with sentence due to begin on 12 April.

According to the report, court papers said Zaman helped gang ringleader Albert Gonzalez launder $600,000 to $800,000 in stolen money, receiving about ten per cent of the total takings for his efforts.

The court papers also reportedly indicated that Zaman used ATM cards linked to several fictitious accounts to withdraw over $30,000 from Gonzalez's Latvian bank account before sending the money on to Gonzalez.

They said Zaman also travelled from New York to California on several separate occasions where he was handed between $100,000 and $250,000 in cash by a third party. After taking his cut, he then put the money in Federal Express boxes and sent it to Gonzalez using a fictitious name, Computerworld reported.