Security News > 2023 > July > SSNDOB cybercrime market admin faces 15 years after pleading guilty
A Ukrainian man, Vitalii Chychasov, has pleaded guilty in the United States to conspiracy to commit access device fraud and trafficking in unauthorized access devices through the now-shutdown SSNDOB Marketplace.
The SSNDOB platform listed and sold the personal details of 24 million people, generating a sales revenue of over $19,000,000.
"Stolen Social Security numbers can be used to commit a variety of frauds, including United States tax fraud, unemployment insurance fraud, loan fraud, credit card fraud, and the like," reads the U.S. DoJ announcement.
A second SSNDOB administrator, Sergey Pugach, was also arrested in May 2022.
Court documents reveal that the admins promoted SSNDOB via advertisements they created on various sites on the dark web, such as other cybercrime marketplaces and hacker forums.
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