Hacker from Estonia convicted in the U.S. for eleven years for stealing $9, 4 million
Nikolai Adashkevich. Court of the state of Georgia (USA) in Atlanta sentenced a hacker from Estonia Sergei Churikova to eleven years in prison, said on the first day of the weekend Estonian print edition.
The court found on the last working day of the week Churikova guilty of cyber-fraud and theft 9, $ 4 million from the Department of Bank Royal Bank of Scotland in Atlanta in 2008 and sentenced to eleven years in prison, and to pay 8, $ 4 million for damages. In may 2009 Churikov and his Accomplices were detained in Tallinn. Churikov was issued by the U.S. authorities in early may 2010.
according to the information of the Estonian Prosecutor's office, in November 2008 Churikov through the organization's network RBS WorldPay gained illegal access to the data debit cards that were used in the U.S. some companies. He gave data to several residents of Tallinn, which included cash withdrawals at ATMs. For one day a Scam cashed in ATMs Tallinn more than 300 thousand dollars.
on the same day, other members of an international illegal group cashed in 2100 ATMs worldwide, more than nine million dollars, using copies of compromised cards. The money was taken in 280 cities in the United States, Ukraine, Russia, Estonia, Italy, Japan and several other countries.
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