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PoS Hacker Awarded 27 Year Jail Sentence by US Court

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32-year old Valeryevich Seleznev, a Roman hacker, has been sentenced to serve 27 years in prison by a US court. It's the longest sentence handed down for hacking-related charges in the United States and has been awarded to the PoS hacker for the hacking-related crimes he had done, the vast credit card and identity theft operations which he did from his homes in Bali, Indonesia, and Vladivostok, Russia, and also for selling millions of credit card numbers on the black market.  PC: Net Valeryevich Seleznev has usually been targeting small businesses- including many US restaurants, he had reportedly planted malware in the networks of over 500  American businesses and 3,700 financial institutions. Federal prosecutors, who had asked for a 30-year sentence for  Valeryevich Seleznev, had presented at the trial enough evidence relating to the PoS security breaches that he had committed. Evidence was there that he had sent stolen credit card data from infecte...