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Ringleader of RBS WorldPay Heist Faces Charges in US
Late in 2008, the most sophisticated and well-coordinated international e-crime yet pulled off netted $9 million for its perpetrators. We discussed the RBS WorldPay heist when news about it emerged, and the indictments some months later. Now one of the accused ringleaders has been extradited from Estonia to face charges in the US. "...in the span of 12 hours around Nov. 8 [2008], the group hit 2,100 ATM terminals in 280 cities spanning the world, from the United States to Russia to Italy to Japan. ... Despite the technical and international challenges of the case, US investigators believe they were able to trace the scheme back to its origin. On Friday they brought one of the accused ringleaders from Estonia to Atlanta to face arraignment on several fraud charges — a rare appearance in US courts for an accused international hacker. Sergei Tsurikov, 26, of Tallinn, Estonia, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment to conspiracy to commit computer fraud, computer fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. ... The increasing scope of foreign attacks comes as college students around the world are focusing heavily on technology degrees only to emerge into a difficult job market with low pay, officials said."
Isn't it World Pay?
Aint it cool how we can go grab someone from another country and force him to stand trial using our laws and rules.
Oh wait.. no... it's that other thing.... pretty stupid.
How long until some guy gets dragged into muslim land to stand trial for something their laws say. Well maybe not muslim land. we hate those guys... but what about someplace like china..
They have the pull to get the other countrys to dance to their tune.
If he's found guilty, of course. Guys like these must be made examples off, so that it will deter future crimes like these.
I'm glad he's facing good old American justice. We are the best and the most aggressive in putting evildoers and troublemakers in prison, so justice should be well served.
I am sorry, I know you are a red-blooded American and all, but holy shit that is the most nationalist hunk of crap I have seen on here in awhile. Consensual crime? If the judge/jury see it as being *bad* enough, off to the rape cage. Are those people troublemakers or evildoers? That could be argued, moreover, argued against. Prisonplanet is more like it.
On second thought, we are definitely the best and most aggressive at putting socially unacceptable people in prison, and justice is rarely served. FTFY.
'We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.' RPF
9mil? Pah, the guy won't even get an interview for a mail room gig at Goldman Sachs. 9 mil, what a joke.
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
Since when did book-learned college students accomplish anything? Look instead to the dropouts and the kids who went to the lower, more "technical" schools.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
Fear is only a deterrent until your opponent either believes they have nothing to lose.
On another note, yet another young'un. If these guys could just make it into their later thirties they could probably scam people the good old fashioned way: legally. Just have to get through youth.
This is America sir, where white collar crimes are deemed a max of 3 months in a luxurious prison. However, if you steal all the money at once, its blue collar and considered a threat to national security. Thus the outrage of the OP.
Fear is only a deterrent until your opponent either believes they have nothing to lose.
He's got his black cherry to lose.
Oh yes, especially if they are a minority. What is the saying? 5% of the world's population and 25% of the world's prison prisoners. Of course I wonder if they count the millions in chinese re-eduction camps run by the military and used as slaves to mass produce goods for sell on the American market, but I digress.
He was making a PAY on words, fucker!
They shipped him from Estonia to Atlanta? Poor guy. No crime is worth going to Atlanta.
Have you got anything without fraud?
Well, there's fraud, egg, sausage, and fraud; that's not got much fraud in it.
I don't want ANY fraud!
What do you mean they cut the power? How can they cut the power, man? They're animals!
Late in 2008, the most sophisticated and well-coordinated international e-crime yet pulled off netted $9 million for its perpetrators.
I thought the banking bailout was for billions?
Late in 2008, the most sophisticated and well-coordinated international e-crime yet pulled off netted $9 million for its perpetrators.
It's the "most sophisticated and well-coordinated" one you know about, anyway....
Not so sophisticated and well-coordinated that it remained a secret, or that the ringleader didn't get caught, apparently.
Am I part of the core demographic for Swedish Fish?
I thought the "We are the best and the most aggressive in putting evildoers and troublemakers in prison" line made it obvious the GP was trolling. Someone who truly believed in his sick perversion of justice would never use those words to describe it.
Reminds me of the Monty Python spam sketch...
Only if you are a well-heeled white collar type with political connections.
Other riffraff ( software engineers, mathematicians, scientists ) can expect
a good PMITA in something other than a federal "hedonism II" resort.
Not good, unless you are gay and into the rough trade.
NTTATRWT.
"The increasing scope of foreign attacks comes as college students around the world are focusing heavily on technology degrees only to emerge into a difficult job market with low pay, officials said."
If you're coming out of college right now with a degree in some form Information or Computer security, then that's probably not going to be the case. From what I've heard, job placement for graduates at my university is pretty good.
If you are good then you wouldn't get caught. These guys weren't so good! That's probably why they couldn't find a job and why they were doing what they were doing.
Catch is in a tough job market, trust takes precedence over qualifications. Especially when you start squeezing down salaries of your computer IT staff. Stories like this will ramp up the fear factor, any hint of untrustworthiness will make successful job applications pretty hard especially in an interconnected world.
The other big thing of course, 'identity theft' (the credit card company lie for defrauding the accepted the false identity), ain't no such thing as identity theft in the cash economy, apart from of course stealing the identity of the currency itself.
Also get caught as a player and you will likely spend the rest of your life on an automated global digital watch list, every minute of every hour of every day, eww. Based upon past paranoid practices, expect stuff like required notifications to ISP at account opening for any convicted network cracker, even required notification to any computer based organisation that requests a log in.
When economic conditions are tough, is the worst time to play, as governments will seek distraction and people are looking to blame anybody for everything. Of course when conditions are tough, that's when the temptation is the greatest, interesting times.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
You don't even have to offend anyone for laws to be ridiculously misapplied against you
Oh yes, especially if they are a minority. What is the saying? 5% of the world's population and 25% of the world's prison prisoners. Of course I wonder if they count the millions in chinese re-eduction camps run by the military and used as slaves to mass produce...
At least, they don't count the millions of Tibetans, that by the official Chinese census figures never even have existed in the first place, despite having been counted years after years by the Tibetan government while it still had its own sovereignty.
And watching those videos on youtube where Chinese soldiers have no problem shooting Tibetan people like dogs for trying to flee Tibet, it's no wonder to me why the number of native people in Tibet is official dwindling down to almost nothing (that and the fact that the Chinese government will pay each Tibetan woman handsomely to get herself sterilized). So no, I'd say that 25% is rather high considering the fact that many countries like China do not even give an accurate count of all the prisoners they have, or even all the minorities they truly kill.
"The three leading suspects have been convicted in Estonia. In the United States they face up to 20 years in prison for wire fraud charges and between 5 and 10 years for computer fraud charges."
I wouldn't say no to a few million profit, but it seems a very small return for compromising so many banks. Might have been better to have sold the method to the banks.
If someone (namely the prosecutor and anyone involved in making the decision to maliciously, unjustly steal 8 years of my life) did this to me I think when I got out there would be a price to pay for the prosecutor and whoever had decided on the sentencing for me. Really, do people in power think there isn't a price for fucking someone over like that?
To these people, it's not 'fucking someone over'. It's '+1 to my score'. Seriously, the way the system works these people think their job is to get as many convictions as possible, not to secure justice. That's why they stack charges to intimidate people who are innocent and make plea bargains with them, that's why they look for defects in laws as carefully as corporate tax lawyers but for the purpose of getting people locked up, and that's why the US has the highest incarceration rate in the world