Ukrainian Arrested In India For TJX Data Theft

ComputerWorld reports "A Ukrainian national has been arrested in India in connection with the most notorious hacking incident in US history." "Sergey Valeryevich Storchark was one of 11 men charged in August 2008 with hacking into nine US retailers and selling tens of millions of credit card numbers. He was arrested in India earlier this week, according to a spokesman with India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). In a statement, the CBI said they'd arrested Storchark in New Delhi on the night of May 8, as he deplaned from a flight from Goa, for layover before a flight to Turkey. US authorities had asked for his extradition via diplomatic channels. ... 'His extradition and prosecution would have been very unlikely had he reached his final destination of Ukraine,' the CBI said."

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Re:Belongs in Prison

[Shakrai]

These scum bags belong in prison for life.

Are you referring to the scumbag identity thieves or the scumbags in the financial sector that decided that someone entering a DOB and SSN on a website would be enough "verification" of identity to allow someone to open credit accounts?

I know someone who applied for and received a $25,000 line of credit from Citi online with no actual verification of who he was. His credit card arrived in the mail a few days later. He had recently moved and his new address wasn't even on his credit report yet. You'd think the fact that the card was going to a previously unknown address would be enough to set off a red flag but it didn't. All he did was apply online using information that any idiot who was willing to dumpster diving could have retrieved.