Feds Identify the Young Russians Behind the Top U.S. Cyber Thefts in Last 7 Years

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/07/albert-gonzalez-conspirators/

By Kim Zetter
Threat Level
Wired.com
07.25.13

Four Russians and one Ukrainian have been charged with masterminding a 
massive hacking spree that was responsible for stealing more than 160 
million bank card numbers from companies in the U.S. over a seven-year 
period.

The alleged hackers were behind some of the most notorious breaches for 
which hacker Albert Gonzalez was convicted in 2010 and is currently 
serving multiple 20-year sentences simultaneously. The indictments clear 
up a years-long mystery about two hackers involved in those attacks who 
were known previously only as Grig and Annex and were listed in 
indictments against Gonzalez as working with him to breach several large 
U.S. businesses, but who have not been identified until now.

The hackers continued their activities long after Gonzalez was convicted, 
however. According to the indictment, filed in New Jersey, their spree ran 
from 2005 to July 2012, penetrating the networks of several of the largest 
payment processing companies in the world, as well as national retail 
outlets and financial institutions in the U.S. and elsewhere, resulting in 
losses exceeding $300 million to the companies.

The Eastern Europeans have been charged in New Jersey with hacking into 
Heartland Payment Systems, one of the world’s largest credit and debit 
card processing companies, as well as Hannaford Brothers, 7-Eleven, 
JCPenney, and Jet Blue. The hackers are also charged with breaching French 
retailer Carrefour S.A. and Dexia Bank Belgium.

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