FBI Nabs Hacking Ring
The Justice Department Tuesday announced the indictment of four people allegedly involved in an international hacking ring that broke into the computer network of an Atlanta-based credit card processing company. Sergei Tsurikov of Estonia; Viktor Pleshchuk of Russia; Oleg Covelin of Moldova; and a person known only as "Hacker 3" were indicted by a federal grand jury in Atlanta on charges they allegedly hacked into RBS WorldPay, part of the Royal Bank of Scotland, FBI and Justice officials said in a statement. Four others from Estonia also were indicted for access device fraud.
The 16-count indictment alleges that Tsurikov, Pleshchuk, Covelin and Hacker 3 used sophisticated hacking techniques to compromise the data encryption that was used by RBS WorldPay to protect customer data on payroll debit cards, which are used by some companies to pay their employees. The ring allegedly raised the account limits on compromised accounts, and then provided a network of "cashers" with 44 counterfeit payroll debit cards, which were used to withdraw more than $9 million from more than 2,100 ATMs in at least 280 cities worldwide, the news release said. The accomplices were allowed to keep up to 50 percent of the money and sent the rest back to Tsurikov, Pleshchuk and others, the officials said.
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