Arrest Warrant for Russian National Indicted in Texas for Cyber Crimes

Описание: The cyber-attack on the US by Russia that has been expected since before Russia invaded Ukraine hasn’t happened, yet, but that hasn’t stopped the US Department of Justice from going after Russians it has charged with hacking and other cyber crimes.

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The Justice Department announced on Tuesday that twenty-three-year-old Russian national, Igor Dekhtyarchuk, was indicted last week by an East Texas federal grand on charges of running an international marketplace for the sale of untold thousands of individuals’ hacked login credentials, personally identifiable information, and authentication tools.

Dekhtyarchuk was indicted in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas on March 16. A federal warrant for his arrest was issued the following day.

The Department of Justice said Tuesday in announcing Dekhtyarchuk’s indictment that he had also been put on the FBI’s infamous Most Wanted List. The Justice Department said the black market the twenty-three-year-old operated gave transnational crime cartels and cyber criminals access to the online accounts of individuals around the world whose financial and other accounts containing personal information had been hacked.

According to the indictment, Dekhtyarchuk operated what the Department of Justice calls, “Marketplace A,” which allegedly sold access to more than 48,000 compromised email accounts, more than 39,000 compromised online accounts, and which averaged approximately 5,000 daily visitors – all of whom presumably were shopping for stolen identifies, credit cards, and other personally identifiable information, or PII. The site began operating in May 2018, the Justice Department said.

The marketplace specialized in the sale of hacked access devices for compromised online payment platforms, retailers, and credit card accounts, including providing the data associated with those accounts, such as the names, home addresses, login credentials, and the payment card data of those whose identities were compromised by hacking.

This type of criminal enterprise is known as, a “carding shop.”

According to the Justice Department, customers could select different products the same way one does on any online store, and that in some cases, they could “purchase the information to unlawfully access two online retail accounts, plus receive credit card information for the same victim.” Other options “were broken down by known account balances, which were sold at different price points.”

The Russian hacker first appeared in hacker forums in November 2013, using the alias, “floraby.”

A former student at Ural State University in Yekaterinburg, Russia, the US Justice Department said yesterday that Dekhtyarchuk was last known to be living in Kamensk-Uralsky, Russia.

US Attorney Brit Featherston said yesterday that “this case exemplifies the need for all of us, right now, to take steps to protect our online identity, our personal data, and our monetary accounts,” adding: “Cyber-criminals are lurking behind the glow of computer screens and are harming Americans.”

Although a federal warrant was issued for Dekhtyarchuk’s arrest on a criminal complaint that alleges wire fraud, access device fraud, and aggravated identity theft, federal law enforcement officials aren’t likely to be getting their hands on him anytime soon, which means he isn’t likely to stand trial in the US for his alleged crimes. However, should he be arrested, extradited, and eventually found guilty, he’d likely be given the maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. One would hope so, anyway!

Wanted Poster: FBI, https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/cyber/igor...
Photos: US Department of Justice, FBI.
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