Security News > 2022 > May > Ukrainian imprisoned for selling access to thousands of PCs
Glib Oleksandr Ivanov-Tolpintsev, a 28-year-old from Ukraine, was sentenced today to 4 years in prison for stealing thousands of login credentials per week and selling them on a dark web marketplace.
"From 2017 through 2019, Ivanov-Tolpintsev listed for sale thousands of login credentials of servers on the Marketplace, including more than 100 in the Middle District of Florida."
Even though Ivanov-Tolpintsev operated online under multiple aliases, the DOJ subpoenaed emails from Google to identify his real identity and a Jabber address he used to communicate with representatives of the marketplace he told the stolen credentials on.
According to court documents, after analyzing the thousands of Jabber chats obtained during the investigation, FBI agents made a timeline of Ivanov-Tolpintsev's activity as a seller and his attempts to become one on the dark web marketplace.
As they found out, using the alias "Mars," the Ukrainian cybercriminal allegedly put up for sale access to 6,704 computers, earning a total of $82,648 after selling them on the dark web marketplace.
Ivanov-Tolpintsev faced charges of conspiracy, trafficking in unauthorized access devices, and trafficking in computer passwords.