According to prosecutors, 32-year-old Roman Seleznev hacked into hundreds of point-of-sale (PoS) systems and installed malware to help steal “more than two million” credit card numbers between October 2009 and July 2014.
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Prosecutors say they will present evidence that he stole credit card information by hacking into the records of Washington pizza restaurants and other USA businesses.
And those investigators found Roman Seleznev’s digital fingerprints on the computers involved in the hacking scheme and the websites that sold the stolen credit cards. Browne will be representing accused Russian computer hacker Roman Seleznev as jury selection for a federal trial begins Monday, Aug. 15, 2016, in Seattle.
Seleznev’s lawyer, John Henry Browne, said he will decide by Tuesday morning whether he will make an opening statement.
A suspected Russian “master hacker” and notorious credit card scammer is set to stand trial in the USA for reportedly playing a prominent role in a five-year hacking spree that netted $170m (£132m) in illicit profits by selling stolen credentials on the Dark Web.
A search of that server found 170,000 stolen credit card numbers, but a review of its internet activity also revealed personal email activity of Roman Seleznev, he said.
Seleznev sat quietly in U.S. District Judge Richard Jones’ Seattle courtroom Monday listening to the proceedings through an interpreter. Browne and the Russian government had argued that the arrest was a kidnapping that violated global law. So the USA agents called the Maldivians and they told them about Roman Seleznev, and they asked for help.
The US Secret Service arrested Seleznev in an airport in the Maldives, out of their jurisdiction, while Seleznev was exchanging flights when traveling home to Russian Federation.
Wilkinson said US officials were on the island with the cooperation of local law enforcement.
This was until 2014 when he was arrested by the US Secret Service in the Maldives while attempting to travel to Russian Federation with his girlfriend. Seleznev is now facing a 40-count indictment after 11 new offences were added that included wire and bank fraud, hacking and identity theft.
Most recently, he retained Browne and his law partner, Emma Scanlan, who in May alleged federal agents tampered with Seleznev’s computer after his arrest and sought to suppress key evidence in the trial.
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