The Us Department of Justice has an Estonia-born hacker sentenced to a prison sentence of seven years. He was involved in the theft of at least 240.000 credit card numbers and had previously been to blame known.
According to the authorities, the 28-year-old Aleksandr Suvorov in two court cases found guilty. In one of them was the hacker found guilty of hacking into more than 80,000 credit card numbers at the restaurant chain Dave & Buster’s. Also tried Suvorov about 160,000 credit card numbers to sell to a person, but this turned out to be a undercoveragent. In addition to his prison sentence of seven years should the hacker 675.000 euros to pay compensation, as well as a fine of $ 300,000, for example, a district court in New York.
The authorities claim that Suvorov with other hackers use a packet sniffer used for credit card details to steal. He installed the software secretly in a total of 11 restaurants Dave & Buster’s, after which the data were captured.
Suvorov was the accomplice of Albert Gonzalez, who operated under the name Soupnazi. That last was already previously sentenced to twenty years imprisonment. This hacker would be hacking credit cards, for a total of $ 200 million have caused damage. He was responsible for stealing data from millions of credit cards.