“In just one
day in 2008, an American credit card processor was hacked in perhaps one of the
most sophisticated and organized computer fraud attacks ever conducted,”
according to a release published by the FBI.
Sentenced.
Slammed. Served.
Back in 2008,
RBS WorldPay, an electronic payment processing service had fallen victim to a
data breach. An unauthorized user gained
access into the companies computer system and obtained personal information of
1.5 million gift card and payroll cardholders. This included names, addresses,
dates of birth, and social security numbers. A critical amount of personal data
was compromised.
These cyber
criminals used highly sophisticated hacking techniques to compromise the data
encryption that was used to protect customers against potential hackers. Officials
were determined to sentence the leader of this cyber attack, and eventually did,
6 years later.
An Estonian
man, Sergei Tsurikov, has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for the role he
played in the 9.4 million dollar data breach. The FBI has detailed the hacker’s
involvement in this breach in a press
release they published.
“A leader of
one of the most sophisticated cyber crime rings in the world has been brought
to justice and sentenced,” said United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates.
Thanks to the corporation
of various law enforcement agencies worldwide, this prosecution was successful.
The FBI informs the public that on top of the 11-year sentence that Tsurikov
must complete, he must top it off with three years of supervised release, as
well as pay out a restitution fee of $8.4 million.
Let this be a
lesson that Security cracking does not pay always pay off . . . sometimes you
get caught.
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