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DOJ: Russian 'Superhacker' Gets 27 Years In Prison (thedailybeast.com)
According to the Justice Department, a 32-year-old Russian "superhacker" has been sentenced to 27 years in prison for stealing and selling millions of credit-card numbers, causing more than $169 million worth of damages to business and financial institutions. The Daily Beast reports: Roman Valeryevich Seleznev, 32, aka Track2, son of a prominent Russian lawmaker, was convicted last year on 38 counts of computer intrusion and credit-card fraud. "This investigation, conviction and sentence demonstrates that the United States will bring the full force of the American justice system upon cybercriminals like Seleznev who victimize U.S. citizens and companies from afar," said Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Blanco said in a statement. "And we will not tolerate the existence of safe havens for these crimes -- we will identify cybercriminals from the dark corners of the Internet and bring them to justice."
to be on the crew of one of the russian bombers, those things that should have been mothballed 70+ years ago. Have you seen those heaps?
we build something better...no bomb us more mom us.. hugs not thugs.. free the innocent stem cells.. cease fire stand down.. sing along.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wplUBFVsbtw
What constitutes a "superhacker" over a regular hacker? Is there a specific definition? Like once you've hacked your 1,000th computer you level up to Superhacker?
WTF? Since when is the Executive Branch doing the sentencing?!
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
What's this shit doing here?
The summary basically *is* the "article", and it raises more questions than it answers. Like, since when does the DOJ sentence people? How was this guy even tried? Not a word on him being extradited or being apprehended in any way, no mentioning of an actual trial etc.
Is this the future? Large multinational corporations brings accusations against an individual to the DOJ, who promptly announces a "sentence" without further ado, in absentia if necessary?
Since Guantanamo Bay and similar "extra-jurisdictional" prisons, starting about 2001.
Obama was droning people daily by the dozen... while the intended targets probably deserved it, the actual targets (mostly civilians/kids in Syria/Lybia/Yemen cannot even sue, cause they do not have "constitutional rights").
Somebody hurry up and get that man another Nobel Peace Prize, and get one for George W. while you are at it...
It's about time the US ditches its 3rd world credit card system and uses something better protected, like mandatory using the chip on the card with a pin code. No more transactions alowed with only the card number, verification date and a 3 digit number that is printed on the card.
a super mediocre hacker!
When I see stories of credit card fraud, I have to ask a very simple question:
Why haven't card companies moved to make the fraud process less prone to being abused?
It's trivial to commit CC Fraud even with chips in the card, and it's not likely to have prosecution if you don't do it too frequently or too blatantly. Or if you are a large company. Further, the merchant is the one the frequently has to pay for the fraud, not the card issuer, even if the merchant has "run the card" and been validated.
On the flip side, I had to have a card canceled twice because a company continued to charge it after I closed the account. Turns out the first "cancel", the card issuer "helped me" by informing the people changing my card of my new card number. I had to cancel the card again, and very specifically instruct the card issuer not to redirect any further changes for the card. If it's the wrong number, decline the transaction.
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
Is he in custody or is this a purely political "sentencing"?
So the neocons hacked the US government and started a war over nonexistant weapons of mass destruction, penalty, zero. The banksters purposefully ran a scam to inflate profits and their bonuses whilst cheating customers and investors of billions, penalty, zero.
The Russian broke the law, hacked computer networks and copied credit card numbers, which he then sold to criminals. Those criminals did the stealing, fraudulently using those insecure numbers. Compared to those other crimes with zero penalty, what is going on. I was surprised there was no claim of refusal to help or it appears any effort what so ever to get those criminals who used those credit card numbers (makes the whole thing stink of politics). I would have liked to have seen a reduced sentence, say minus a month for each prosecution the defendant helped to gain against the criminals who used the credit card numbers, or at the very least that effort made. Perhaps the Russian government would have cooperated but no politics seemed to have been the focus.
It seems a major opportunity to track down more Russian criminals was wasted, stupid as.
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He becomes the next RU president with a nice retirement and in the meantime, he has mafia ties for protection. If a guy is that good, he shouldn't be sent to prison, but made to work in cyber security. If anything, they just helped him find other criminals to make friends with. What a waist. Besides, last time I checked, they considered hacking a form of terrorism, and their SWAT shoots first and asks questions later in that regard. So, it wouldn't surprise me that they're telling the public one thing and really doing something else.
Everyone involved is completely ignoring the fact that the companies involved were not properly secured. It doesn't take a "superhacker" to get past shitty security and we shouldn't be protecting companies with shitty security. Sure, punish the hacker but you need to also punish the executives that decided security shouldn't be the highest priority. When you put profit comes before security, you are asking, nay, begging to get hacked and that's exactly what happened here.
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He becomes the next RU president with a nice retirement and in the meantime, he has mafia ties for protection. If a guy is that good, he shouldn't be sent to prison, but made to work in cyber security. If anything, they just helped him find other criminals to make friends with. What a waist. Besides, last time I checked, they considered hacking a form of terrorism, and their SWAT shoots first and asks questions later in that regard. So, it wouldn't surprise me that they're telling the public one thing and really doing something else.
Hell, he'll be working for Putin while IN prison. Got more elections to rig..
That's what the world wants to know. Not what you do to get rid of the people who compete with or refuse to work with you.