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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.
TFA makes clear that he was arrested/detained in The Netherlands, so he was presumably extradited from there.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
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.
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.
"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?
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