Seleznev price the US about $170 million
Seleznev, additionally identified by his hacker identify Track2, is the son of a distinguished Russian lawmaker, Valery Seleznev, and was arrested in July 2014 within the Maldives, and subsequently extradited to the US, for his involvement in cybercrime actions.
The crimes Seleznev was convicted of included hacking and information theft, bank card fraud, id theft, and racketeering. His largest offense was hacking into point-of-sale computer systems to steal bank card numbers and promote them on darkish market web sites.
The now forty-year-old hacker had stolen, as authorities discovered from his laptop computer, greater than 1.7 million bank cards from greater than 500 US companies and had despatched the information to servers that he managed in Russia, Ukraine, and McLean, Virginia.