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Russian Man Extradited To US For Heartland, Dow Jones Cyberattacks
itwbennett writes: A Russian man accused of high-profile cyberattacks on Nasdaq, Dow Jones, Heartland Payment Systems and 7-Eleven has been extradited to the U.S. and appeared in court in Newark, New Jersey on Tuesday. Vladimir Drinkman, 34, of Syktyykar and Moscow, Russia was charged for his alleged role in a data theft conspiracy that targeted major corporate networks and stole more than 160 million credit card numbers, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a press release. Drinkman appeared Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey and entered a plea of not guilty to the 11 counts he faces. His trial is scheduled to begin in April.
I couldn't tell from the story - was he actually extradited by Russia? If so, I'm really surprised they're welling to extradite anyone to us these days.
While not a fan of anything much the US does. The US did not arrest him, he was arrested elsewhere, the US has to prove a case is valid in the local courts for extradition to occur. This is EXACTLY how things should be working, assuming no corruption was involved in the extradition trial.
At least they caught him and willing to give him the justice that this crime deserves.
well I picked up the NETHERLANDS extradition agreement (available through google if you bothered before commenting) and as expected you are full of shit. Netherlands requires the extradition request to be reviewed by the court (unless the person has agreed to a simplified extradition). The Netherlands also has a history of REFUSING extradition requests from the US that it determines are without merit. You can also do many searches and see that the dutch court did review and approve the extradition.
Either way, I don't think he'll be getting any Slurpees where he's going.
I suggest you go and inform yourself, the agreements are NOT the same, the Netherlands requires the extradition to be reviewed under dutch laws by a dutch court. The dutch have refused extraditions from the US before on grounds that the case is without merit or that they believe the person will be mistreated by US system.
TFA:
Drinkman and Smilianets were arrested at the request of the DOJ while traveling in the Netherlands in June 2012.
Let me guess, was this an all expense paid Tour of the Netherlands that Drinkman's email address Won?
Sig Battery depleted. Reverting to safe mode.
"The hackers often gained initial entry through an SQL injection attack" (TFA) SQL injection? Shouldn't the "victims" be prosecuted also, for poor IT management?
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
No they aren't the same (though many are based on the same European extradition agreement). most countries do not just rubber stamp US requests like the UK does.
I misclicked and mismoderated your comment. Undo.
On-topic: not only that, but in this specific case there was also an extradition request from Russia which was quite strange, which ensured that the entire case was covered in the national media. There was a lot of suspicion that the extradition request from Russia was just to ensure he could get out of jail, using his ill-gotten profits to buy himself off.
Therefore, by the (faulty) logic you're using, you're just a cow with a keyboard - osu-neko (2604)
Given the state of Russia-USA relations, they probably would have given him a medal. His buddies have so far been smart enough to avoid getting arrested in a country with whom the USA has an extradition treaty.
"Kalinin, Kotov and Rytikov remain at large."
Neither the article, nor the linked PCworld article say much about how they identified these guys by name. I'd be curious to know.
Wikipedia has a nice list of countries with whom the USA has extradition treaties and there are associated PDFs.
I know that the CIA has indeed kidnapped people (extraordinary rendition is the sanitized name) from Western countries, and those countries were none too happy about it.
Normally, it's possible to fight extradition in a court. In fact, there are lawyers who specialize in this sort of thing.
You watch too much TV
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Will anybody be so kind to post a proof link of any American extradited to Russia?
That last name is actually Jewish :) The Russian last names end in "ov", "in" and "yn" IIRC.
Who the fuck creates a new account when they change employers?
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Could we hang someone else? Or a bunch?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Who the fuck creates a new account when they change employers?
People who don't like getting sued if they talk about their old employer.
On the contrary, he may have to do quite a bit of slurping.
And the city name Syktyvkar is a conjugation of the words "Sick", "Thief" and "Guy" in norwegian. Drinkman from Sick-thief-guy. Just sayin'
Court orders to /. would still give up your info. I've seen it happen to former coworkers.
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