Hacker pleads guilty in Hannaford breach

Newark, N.J. Albert Gonzalez, suspect in the data-theft case surrounding Hannaford Bros. supermarket chain, has pled guilty in U.S. District Court in Newark, N.J.

Gonzalez pled guilty to hacking into the computers of Heartland Payment Systems, Hannaford, 7-Eleven and two other unnamed national retailers.

The judge has transferred the case to Massachusetts, where Gonzalez is facing two similar charges. Gonzalez is accused of having broken into computer networks at Hannaford and other retailers in 2007 and 2008, stealing millions of credit-card records.