A Florida man has been accused of stealing information about 130 million credit and debt cards from customers of 7-Eleven and other retail giants in the biggest identify theft case ever uncovered in America, The Times reports.

Prosecutors from the Department of Justice said that Albert Gonzales, a 28-year-old from Miami, Florida, hacked into the computer systems of companies including Heartland Payment Systems, a payment processing business, Hannaford Brothers, the supermarket group, and 7-Eleven, the convenience chain, to steal information from customers’ bank cards.

If convicted, Gonzales, who identified himself online as Soupnazi, will have broken his own record for alleged computer crime.

He is currently in a New Jersey jail awaiting trial for similar offences last year involving the theft of information about 40 million cards from computers of stores including TJ Maxx, Barnes & Noble, Forever 21 and Sports Authority.

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