U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman announced today the indictment of four Russians and a Ukranian in what he is calling “the largest hacking and data breach scheme ever prosecuted in the United States.” From 2005 to 2012, reports The Star Ledger, Vladimir Drinkman, Aleksandr Kalinin, Roman Kotov, Mikhail Rytikov and Dmitriy Smilianets allegedly uploaded malware into the computer systems of large institutions like Dow Jones, NASDAQ, JetBlue and 7-Eleven, then used that access to download and sell as many as 160 million credit and debit card numbers, along with other PII. Stolen funds reached into the many hundreds of millions.
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