follow-up: Prison sentence for RBS hacker suspended in Russia

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http://www.scmagazineus.com/prison-sentence-for-rbs-hacker-suspended-in-russia/article/178549/

Prison sentence for RBS hacker suspended in Russia
Angela Moscaritolo
September 09, 2010

One of the leaders of a cybercriminal gang that hacked into payment 
services provider RBS WorldPay and stole $9 million has received a 
six-year suspended sentence in Russia, according to reports.

Viktor Pleshchuk, 28, of St. Petersburg, also received four years of 
probation and was ordered to pay the equivalent of $8.9 million in 
restitution for his role in the November 2008 heist, according to a report 
in Bloomberg. Pleshchuk, who prosecutors said was one of four people who 
orchestrated the compromise, received a reduced sentence for cooperating 
with authorities.

He was arrested earlier this year by the Russian Federal Security Service.

The sentence seems low compared to U.S. standards, especially considering 
that Pleshchuk was one of the prime coordinators behind the multimillion 
dollar heist, Chester Wisniewski, senior security adviser at Sophos, told 
SCMagazineUS.com in an email on Thursday.

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