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US Charges Russian With Launching 2008 Amazon DoS Attack

Posted by timothy on from the break-open-the-emergency-thumbscrews dept.

The Seattle Times reports that Dmitry Olegovick Zubakha, "A Russian man believed to be behind cyberattacks on Seattle-based Amazon.com and other online retailers in June, 2008 has been arrested in Cyprus, says U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan." Along with a partner, Sergey Vioktorovich Logashov (still at large), Zubakha apparently also undertook, and later bragged about, attacks on Priceline and Ebay. After extradition, he's expected to face trial in the U.S. for possession of illegal access devices, conspiracy, and aggravated identity theft.

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  1. Where is the jurisdiction? by BlueCoder · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Were these people on US soil when they performed these acts?

    Am I the only US citizen that is concerned about this?

    Is Saudi Arabia now able to extradite me because I read playboy?

    1. Re:Where is the jurisdiction? by the+eric+conspiracy · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Why does being on US soil have anything to do with committing a crime against a US entity?

      People commit crimes. You don't have to be on US soil to commit very nasty crimes against US interests. For example Osama bin Laden was never on US soil AFAIK.

      Depending on the extradition treaties of the place they commit them from or later visit the US may or may not be able to bring them to trial. Sometimes the US may even use force of arms to bring such people to reckoning.

      It's called being a sovereign power.

      Obviously Cyprus is one of the places you don't want to visit after committing such a crime.

      > Am I the only US citizen that is concerned about this?

      No, but you are seriously in the minority.

      > Is Saudi Arabia now able to extradite me because I read playboy?

      Very unlikely since there is no extradition treaty between the US and Saudi.

  2. What the ... ? by X.25 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Would Cyprus arrest creators of Stuxnet, on request from Iran, if those people would show up in Cyprus?