Russian Man Admits Global Hacking Scheme

Luke 17:28-30 “Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built” but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.

Editor’s Note: In May 2011, the Wall Street Journal published an article titled “Pentagon: Cyber Attacks Can Count as Acts of War.” The article began, “The Pentagon has concluded that computer sabotage coming from another country can constitute an act of war, a finding that for the first time opens the door for the U.S. to respond using traditional military force.”

A Russian man has admitted his role in a hacking scheme that sold record amounts of stolen credit and debit card numbers.

Vladimir Drinkman admitted that he had a major role in stealing 160 million credit and debit card numbers.  U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman said the hacking and data breach is the largest ever prosecuted in America.

Drinkman pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy involving wire fraud and unauthorized access to protected computers. The 34-year-old will be sentenced in January and faces up to 35 years in federal prison after which he will be deported.

He also will face millions of dollars in fines.

Drinkman told the court that from 2005 to 2012 he worked with others on a scheme that sent malware to corporate computers to obtain personal information.  The malware would then delete itself so corporations could not tell they had been breached.

Some of the companies impacted where 7-Eleven, Dow Jones and NASDAQ.

Drinkman was arrested in the Netherlands in 2012 and brought to the U.S. for trial.  One of his co-conspirators, Dmitriy Smilianets, is in federal custody awaiting trial.  Three other co-conspirators are still on the run.

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