Russian hacker extradited to the USA admitted theft of data from American companies

Russian citizen Andrei Tyurin, extradited last year from Georgia to the United States, pleaded guilty in a US court to hacking a bank JPMorgan Chase and other companies.

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During a meeting in the Manhattan federal court, 36-year-old Tyurin pleaded guilty to six counts of charges, including hacking the computer networks of financial companies to obtain the personal data of their clients and search for potential victims of fraudulent schemes, Reuters reports.

“I pleaded guilty to these counts because I am truly guilty,” Tyurin was quoted as saying by Bloomberg.

The Russians are accused of stealing data from JPMorgan Chase, E-Trade Financial, Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal. According to the prosecution, more than 100 million customers of these companies, including 80 million JPMorgan customers, were affected. Bloomberg calls it the biggest cybercrime against an American bank.

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The prosecution is expected to ask the court to sentence Tyurin to 15-20 years in prison, Bloomberg reports. The verdict will be handed down on February 13 2020 of the year.

Tyurin's confession of guilt brings US authorities closer to putting an end to the case of a series of devastating attacks on the American financial system that occurred in 2012-2015, the agency said.

These attacks were so large-scale and sophisticated that the US authorities at first assumed that Russian intelligence could be involved in them, but in the end they came to the conclusion that an independent criminal group was engaged in the hacks.

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Tyurin was held accountable in the same case in which the Israelis Geri Shalon and Ziv Orenstein, as well as the American Joshua Aaron, are being held.

Shalon, whom the investigation considers to be the head of the criminal group, and Orenstein were arrested in Israel in July 2015 and extradited to America. Aaron initially hid in Russia, but then surrendered to the US authorities.

Tyurin was extradited to the United States from Georgia in September 2018. According to the Russian Consulate General in New York, after the extradition, he did not seek help from diplomats who visited him.

“Neither during this meeting nor after did he make any requests for help. The Consulate General is ready to provide assistance, the situation is under control,” Alexey Topolsky, press secretary of the Consulate General, told RIA Novosti.

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