Security News > 2017 > July > Russian Financial Cybercriminal Gets Over 9 Years In U.S. Prison (The Hackers News)
2017-07-11 10:01
A 29-year-old Russian-born, Los Angeles resident has been sentenced to over nine years in prison for running botnets of half a million computers and stealing and trafficking tens of thousands of credit card numbers on exclusive Russian-speaking cybercriminal forums. Alexander Tverdokhlebov was arrested in February, pleaded guilty on March 31 to wire fraud and on Monday, a federal court
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