PoS Hacker Awarded 27 Year Jail Sentence by US Court
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 infected point-of-sale systems to servers under his control in Russia, Ukraine and Virginia. As per reports the hacks he had committed had cost 3,700 financial institutions a jaw-dropping $169 million. One of the restaurants that he had hacked, the Broadway Grill in Seattle, was reportedly forced into bankruptcy through the attack.
Valeryevich Seleznev had carried out his PoS security hackings between October 2009 and October 2013 and it all came to an end in July 2014 when he was taken into custody, in the Maldives. He was holidaying there with his girlfriend. A forensic examination of his laptop, conducted later, revealed that it contained more than 1.7 million stolen credit card details, plus other evidence that linked him to the servers and financial transactions affected by his hacks. Seleznev had reportedly submitted to the court an 11-page handwritten apology admitting his guilt, perhaps in the hope that he would get a lesser sentence. Anyhow, he has now been given a 27-year sentence, which, as mentioned earlier, is the longest sentence ever given in the US for hacking-related charges.
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 infected point-of-sale systems to servers under his control in Russia, Ukraine and Virginia. As per reports the hacks he had committed had cost 3,700 financial institutions a jaw-dropping $169 million. One of the restaurants that he had hacked, the Broadway Grill in Seattle, was reportedly forced into bankruptcy through the attack.
Valeryevich Seleznev had carried out his PoS security hackings between October 2009 and October 2013 and it all came to an end in July 2014 when he was taken into custody, in the Maldives. He was holidaying there with his girlfriend. A forensic examination of his laptop, conducted later, revealed that it contained more than 1.7 million stolen credit card details, plus other evidence that linked him to the servers and financial transactions affected by his hacks. Seleznev had reportedly submitted to the court an 11-page handwritten apology admitting his guilt, perhaps in the hope that he would get a lesser sentence. Anyhow, he has now been given a 27-year sentence, which, as mentioned earlier, is the longest sentence ever given in the US for hacking-related charges.
Comments
Post a Comment