Hackers from Russia and Ukraine stole 300 million US dollars

[Матушкин Андрей Николаевич]

 

[Плотников Юрий Михайлович]

Thank!

 

[Турабян Владимир]

THANK!

 

[Детектив-Молдова]

Thank!
This is the scope!
And the hackers of Russia and Ukraine united: lol:

 

[Витаутас. Частный детектив г. Вильнюс. Литва]

Russian hackers caught stealing 160 million bank card numbers 07/26/2013 |
According to the indictment of the New Jersey prosecutor, 32-year-old Vladimir Drinkman and 26-year-old Alexander Kalinin hacked into the computer networks of financial corporations, and 32-year-old Roman Kotov searched for the necessary data. They allegedly hid their activity using an anonymous web hosting service provided by 26-year-old Ukrainian Mikhail Rytikov, writes Reuters.

29-year-old Dmitry Smilyanets was engaged in the sale of stolen data and the distribution of proceeds. As the investigation found out, he charged $ 10 for American bank card numbers, $ 15 for Canadian cards and $ 50 for European ones. European ones were valued the most because of the built-in chip in them, which increased their security. Hackers sold card numbers to resellers, who then resold them on online forums to the so-called “cashiers,” who encrypted the numbers on magnetic tapes of clean plastic cards.
In total, the Russians managed to steal 160 million bank card numbers. It cost companies a total of $ 300 million.

The processing company Heartland Payment Systems, which lost about $ 200 million due to the theft of 130 million bank card numbers, suffered the most. Also among the victims were the processing service provider Global Payment Systems, the Visa payment system and the European provider of electronic payment services Commidea, from the computer systems of which information about 30 million bank cards was stolen. Almost 1 million bank card numbers were stolen from Global Payment Systems. Losses of the company amounted to $ 93 million. About 800 thousand numbers of bank cards were stolen from the database of the Visa payment system, how much the company lost was not reported.

Not all companies whose computers were infected with the malware suffered financial losses. So, hackers managed to get the credentials of customers of the Nasdaq and Dow Jones exchanges, however, as follows from the conviction, the trading platforms themselves were not affected by the actions of cybercriminals.

Based on materials from ruformator.ru

 

[Матушкин Андрей Николаевич]

Thank you, Vytautas.

 

[Краев Евгений Леонидович]

Thanks, interesting!