A jury convicted a Russian man Thursday of hacking into US businesses to steal credit card information and orchestrating an global online theft scheme that made him millions of dollars.
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The conviction of Seleznev, of Vladivostok, followed a 10-year-long investigation by the US Secret Service, the agency said.
The defense focused on challenging the evidence from Seleznev’s laptop, seized by Secret Service agents during his arrest. “Seleznev then bundled the credit card information into groups called bases” and sold the information on various carding” websites to buyers who would then use the credit card numbers for fraudulent purchases. Browne had challenged the arrest during pr.
Roman Seleznev, also known as “Track2”, was found guilty by a federal jury in Seattle on 38 of 40 counts including wire fraud and intentional damage to a protected computer following an eight day trial, prosecutors said. He could face up to 40 years in prison when he’s sentenced December 2, and he still faces similar charges in federal courts in Nevada and Georgia, his attorney said.
According to U.S. prosecutors, Seleznev hacked into retail point-of-sale systems and installed malware in order to steal over a million credit card numbers from businesses between October 2009 and October 2013.
Seleznev is the son of Valery Selezenv, a Russian lawmaker. They also said prosecutors failed to make a solid link between the hacks and Seleznev.
From 2009 to 2013, Seleznev used this scheme to steal credit card data from businesses and send it back to his servers in Ukraine and McLean, Virginia.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Norman Barbosa said Wednesday that Roman Seleznev was a prolific hacker.
Prosecutors added 11 new counts in October 2014, including wire and bank fraud, hacking and identity theft.
The victim businesses that form the basis of the charges, mostly pizza restaurants in Washington state, had to spend tens of thousands of dollars to fix their computers and lost business and customer trust because of the hacks, prosecutors said.
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When he was arrested in the Maldives in 2014, investigators found 1.7 million stolen credit card numbers on his laptop, along with passwords to computer servers.
