Security News > 2017 > April > Russian carding industry pioneer sentenced to 27 years in prison (Help Net Security)

32-year-old Roman Valeryevich Seleznev, aka Track2, has been handed the longest US hacking sentence to date: 27 years in prison. He was convicted in August 2016, of 38 counts (intentional damage to a protected computer, obtaining information from a protected computer, possession of unauthorized access devices and aggravated identity theft) related to his scheme to hack into point-of-sale computers to steal credit card numbers and sell them on dark market websites. The unprecedentedly long prison … More →

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