This judgement is thence far the longest judgement always imposed inwards the U.S. for a hacking-related case.
Roman Valeryevich Seleznev, 32, the boy of a Russian Parliament fellow member of the nationalist Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR), Valery Seleznev, was arrested inwards 2014 spell attempting to board a flying inwards the Republic of the Maldives together with and thence extradited to the United States.
Upon arrest, federal authorities retrieved a estimator that contained over 1.7 1000000 stolen credit menu numbers.
Seleznev, besides went past times the moniker 'Track2' online, was convicted inwards August 2016 of 38 charges related to stolen credit menu details, which include:
- 10 counts of Wire Fraud
- 9 counts of possession of xv or to a greater extent than unauthorized access devices
- 9 counts of obtaining information from a Protected Computer
- 8 counts of Intentional Damage to a Protected Computer
- 2 counts of Aggravated Identity Theft
Longest Ever Hacking-Related Sentence inwards the United States
Seleznev – together with potentially other cyber criminals who are unknown to the authorities – developed a hacking system that used automated techniques to hack into POS machines inwards retailers together with install malware to bag copies of credit menu numbers.
The lists of millions of stolen credit menu numbers were together with thence sold on diverse online "carding" websites together with the nighttime web. Prosecutors said his hacking get striking to a greater extent than than 3,700 businesses.
Before his sentencing, Seleznev asked US District Court Judge Richard Jones for leniency, urging the estimate to take in his medical issues, the lawsuit of existence caught together with injured inwards 2011 terrorist bombing, inwards deciding his prison theatre term.
However, Jones told Seleznev that the Kingdom of Morocco bombing "was an invitation to correct your wrongs together with recognize you lot were given a instant jeopardy inwards life," but instead, you lot "amassed a fortune" at the expense of thousands of small-scale business.
"Today is a bad twenty-four hours for hackers closed to the world," said U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. "As Mr. Seleznev has at in ane lawsuit learned, together with others should accept banknote – nosotros are working closely amongst our police enforcement partners closed to the footing to find, apprehend, together with convey to judge those who role the cyberspace to bag together with destroy our peace of mind."
"Whether the victims are multi-national banks or small-scale pizza joints, nosotros are all victims when our day-to-day transactions lawsuit inwards millions of dollars ending upwards inwards the incorrect hands," Hayes added.
Russian MP: Sentence "Passed past times Man-Eaters;" My Son is innocent!
Twenty-seven years inwards prison theatre is an absolutely inappropriate judgement for cyber theft, Seleznev's defence attorney Igor Litvak stated on Friday.
Seleznev's arrest inwards the Republic of the Maldives together with and thence extradition to the U.S. sparked an international dispute betwixt American together with Russian authorities. The Russian Foreign Ministry fifty-fifty characterized the extradition every bit a "kidnapping" together with against all norms of international law.
Russian MP Valery Seleznev, the manful mortal raise of Seleznev, said the judgement was "passed past times man-eaters" together with that his boy was "abducted."
The Roman MP added that his "son was tortured because existence inwards jail inwards a unusual province subsequently abduction is torture inwards itself. He is innocent."
Mr. Seleznev besides said that he viewed the 27-years-prison judgement every bit a life judgement because his boy would never last these much years inwards prison.
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