Alexander Tverdokhlebov was arrested inwards February, pleaded guilty on March 31 to wire fraud as well as on Monday, a federal courtroom sentenced him to 110 months inwards prison.
According to court documents, Tverdokhlebov was an active fellow member of several highly exclusive Russian-speaking cybercriminal forums largely engaged inwards money laundering services, selling stolen sensitive data, as well as malware tools since at to the lowest degree 2008.
Tverdokhlebov offered several illegal services on these undercover forums, including the telephone substitution of tools, services as well as stolen personal as well as fiscal information.
The hacker also operated several botnets – a network of compromised ordinary dwelling solid as well as component subdivision computers that are controlled yesteryear hackers as well as tin flame live on used to pocket credit bill of fare as well as other sensitive fiscal information.
At diverse occasions betwixt 2009 as well as 2013, Tverdokhlebov claimed on the undercover forums that "he possessed 40,000 stolen credit bill of fare numbers as well as could command upwards to 500,000 infected computers."
Tverdokhlebov emigrated from Russian Federation inwards 2007 as well as after obtained U.S. citizenship. He also hired 2 Russian students studying inwards the America to cash out funds from a compromised depository fiscal establishment account.
At the fourth dimension of his arrest inwards February, federal government seized some $5 meg inwards Bitcoin as well as $272,000 inwards cash from Tverdokhlebov, piece he was trying to pocket money from thousands of online U.S.A. depository fiscal establishment accounts.
According to the prosecutors, Tverdokhlebov stole sensitive fiscal information from at to the lowest degree 100 victims, estimating losses totaled betwixt $9.5 Million to $25 Million.
"As component subdivision of the sentencing, the courtroom also ordered the accused to serve iii years of supervised unloose next his prison theater term, amongst weather of unloose that volition include monitoring of the defendant's figurer use," the Department of Justice said.Most of his household unit of measurement is all the same based inwards Russia, as well as the solely meaning necktie he has inwards the U.S. is a human relationship amongst a Russian-born adult woman based there. Tverdokhlebov also married an American citizen inwards 2009 but divorced her shortly.
