Russian hacker convicted of stealing $ 169 million

A court in the United States convicted a hacker Roman Seleznev, also known as Track2, Bulba, Zagreb, and smaus, in hacker attacks on various organizations' PoS systems. Seleznev was in the hands of US law enforcement services in the summer of 2014 in the Maldives, and then was extradited there. Seleznev was convicted of fraud, remote hacking of computers, and theft of personal data of users. According to US law enforcement, Seleznev remotely penetrated computers in the United States from Russia using a special server. The victims of the fraudster were small private organizations in Washington. The hacker remotely installed malware on computers that control PoS terminals, collected credit card data, and then forwarded it to another server.

After receiving the data cards, the attacker sold them to cards in underground forums. The scheme, which was created by Seleznev, was used against 3,700 financial institutions and banks, which led to the loss of funds in the amount of more than $ 169 million. Malicious actions were carried out from October 2009 to October 2013.

According to the testimony of the rules of the trial and the third year, it was hacked. There was a lot of the business, including the Broadway Grill in Seattle, followed by a cyber assault.

When Seleznev was detained, about 1.7 million stolen credit cards were found on his laptop. In addition, evidence was also found there that links Seleznev with the servers, mail accounts and financial transactions used in the criminal scheme.
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It has been shown that it can be used for a credit card at the international trademark of McLean, Virginia. Seleznev then he referred to the carding card at various rates. Testimony at trial revealed that Seleznev's scheme caused by 3,700 financial institutions more than $ 169 million in losses.

The sentence to Seleznev will be announced on December 2, he faces up to 34 years in prison.