Federal prosecutors announce arrest of Ukrainians for alleged hacking of US businesses
Source: The Hill
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday announced the arrest of three high-ranking members of a criminal hacking gang known as Carbanak.
Prosecutors in Seattle unveiled the indictments against Ukrainian nationals Dmytro Fedorov, Fedir Hladyr and Andrii Kopakov.
The individuals allegedly orchestrated a sophisticated hacking campaign targeting over 100 U.S. companies.
The Ukrainians are accused of using phishing attacks and malware to harvest information on over 15 million payment cards from thousands of business locations across the U.S., which they then sold for profit.
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Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/399895-federal-prosecutors-announce-arrest-of-three-ukrainians-for-allegedly
George II
(67,782 posts)B Stieg
(2,410 posts)Unsurprisingly, neither does anyone working at the "Internet Research Agency" in Saint Petersburg or Moscow.
Putin's Follies continues...
byronius
(7,395 posts)Some are just plain old criminals.
Igel
(35,320 posts)Looks like at least two of these are.
But many Ukrainian nationals are Russian in every way other than nationality.
Duppers
(28,125 posts)We used our Discover credit card at a restaurant years ago. Our waitress was Russian who, it turned out, obviously belong to some crime syndicate. Our card was lifted and used for cash. Discover Card said our theory re: the source of our stolen card # was correct.
ffr
(22,671 posts)And I do mean, all of them.
Make an example out of them too. Lock them up!