'The Analyzer' Gets Time Served for Million-Dollar Bank Heist

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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/07/tenenbaum-sentenced/

By Kim Zetter
Threat Level
Wired.com
July 5, 2012

Ehud Tenenbaum, aka "The Analyzer," was quietly sentenced in New York 
this week to time served for a single count of bank-card fraud for his 
role in a sophisticated computer-hacking scheme that federal officials 
say scored $10 million from U.S. banks.

He was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $503,000 and was 
given three years probation.

The notorious Israeli hacker seemed to disappear after his 2008 arrest 
in Canada for his alleged involvement in a scheme that stole about $1.5 
million from Canadian banks. Before Canadian authorities could prosecute 
him, U.S. officials filed an extradition request to bring him to the 
States, where he was in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service for 
more than a year.

But after a sentencing hearing scheduled for 2009 was canceled, 
Tenenbaum’s case seemed to languish with little activity, until a notice 
about a new sentencing hearing scheduled for last November appeared in 
the federal court system, and U.S. District Judge Edward R. Korman 
formally filed his sentencing order this week.

It’s not clear how long Tenenbaum was in custody after he was 
extradited. The U.S. Marshal Service told Threat Level in August 2010 
that he’d been released on bond in March of that year, after Tenenbaum 
had agreed to plead guilty on the access device charge. The sequence of 
events, the lengthy time that the case remained inactive, and the quiet 
sentencing suggest that part of the plea agreement may have involved 
cooperation with authorities, something that is a condition of many plea 
agreements that involve hacking and bank fraud.

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