$31 Million Estimated Loss to Victims’ Online Banking
Accounts and Credit Cards
A Ukrainian national was sentenced today to six years in
prison for trafficking stolen financial information obtained through computer
hacking.
Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the
Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger
for the Eastern District of Virginia and Special Agent in Charge Brian J. Ebert
of the U.S. Secret Service’s Washington Field Office, made the announcement
after sentencing by Senior U.S. District Judge Claude M. Hilton.
According to court documents, Ruslan Yeliseyev, 42, of
Odessa, Ukraine, made his living selling stolen financial information on
underground Russian-speaking criminal websites.
The information that Yeliseyev sold, which had been stolen from
approximately 40,000 hacked computers, included over 62,000 credit card numbers
as well as usernames and passwords to victims’ online banking accounts. Yeliseyev was arrested while vacationing in
Israel in 2016 and subsequently extradited to the United States.
The investigation was conducted by the U.S. Secret
Service. The Justice Department’s Office
of International Affairs provided significant assistance in the extradition. Trial Attorney Andrew Pak of the Criminal
Division’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) and
Assistant U.S. Attorney Kellen S. Dwyer of the Eastern District of Virginia
prosecuted the case.
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