That's incredible that he couldn't get a job with his knowledge of computers:

"I was homeless, staying on a friends couch. I couldn't get work," he wrote. In desperation, he turned again to cybercrime. By the time of his arrest in September 2007, he had built the largest marketplace for stolen credit and debit card information in the world."

Too bad he decided to try to make money that way. Good luck paying back 27 million!!!