This judgement is therefore far the longest judgement e'er imposed inward the the States 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 inward 2014 spell attempting to board a flying inward the Republic of the Maldives together with and therefore extradited to the United States.
Upon arrest, federal authorities retrieved a estimator that contained over 1.7 1000000 stolen credit carte du jour numbers.
Seleznev, every bit good went past times the moniker 'Track2' online, was convicted inward August 2016 of 38 charges related to stolen credit carte du jour 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 inward 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 inward retailers together with install malware to pocket copies of credit carte du jour numbers.
The lists of millions of stolen credit carte du jour numbers were together with therefore sold on diverse online "carding" websites together with the nighttime web. Prosecutors said his hacking drive hitting to a greater extent than than 3,700 businesses.
Before his sentencing, Seleznev asked US District Court Judge Richard Jones for leniency, urging the guess to see his medical issues, the effect of beingness caught together with injured inward 2011 terrorist bombing, inward 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 minute hazard inward life," but instead, you lot "amassed a fortune" at the expense of thousands of small-scale business.
"Today is a bad 24-hour interval for hackers or therefore the world," said U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. "As Mr. Seleznev has at in i trial learned, together with others should accept depository fiscal establishment annotation – nosotros are working closely amongst our police pull enforcement partners or therefore the basis to find, apprehend, together with choose to jurist those who role the mesh to pocket 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 effect inward millions of dollars ending upward inward the incorrect hands," Hayes added.
Russian MP: Sentence "Passed past times Man-Eaters;" My Son is innocent!
Twenty-seven years inward prison theatre is an absolutely inappropriate judgement for cyber theft, Seleznev's defence forcefulness attorney Igor Litvak stated on Friday.
Seleznev's arrest inward the Republic of the Maldives together with and therefore extradition to the the States 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 begetter 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 beingness inward jail inward a unusual province later on abduction is torture inward itself. He is innocent."
Mr. Seleznev every bit good said that he viewed the 27-years-prison judgement every bit a life judgement because his boy would never move these much years inward prison.
