Albert Gonzalez is the Miami cyber thief who pleaded guilty to a second computer hacking case this year.

The Miami man admitted that he stole 130 million credit and debit cards. These cards were stolen from big retailers of which major are Heartland Payment Systems Inc., 7-Eleven Inc., Delhaize Group’s Hannaford Brothers Co. and two unidentified national retailers.

He was once an informant for U. S. Secret Service and his job was to assist federal government in their efforts to sniff out a cyber theft. And now he will be sentenced to imprisonment for at the most 17 years.

“He wants finality and he regrets what he did with his skills,” defense attorney Martin Weinberg told reporters after the hearing before U. S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock.

Investigators also discovered about $1.1 million in cash that he buried in the backyard of his parents' home in southwest Miami-Dade County.