Ukrainian hacker can sit down in the US on 30 years

Photo: depositphotos.com

31-year-old Ukrainian Yevgeny Levitsky, also known under the hacker pseudonym MURDERER, was extradited from the Czech Republic to Atlanta last week. US authorities have levitsky charges of conspiring to commit banking and electronic fraud. Hacker faces up to 30 years in prison.

In November, 2008, a group of hackers, which included a Ukrainian, carried out an operation to steal $ 9 million from bank accounts. The attackers broke into the network of the company RBS WorldPay, which carried out the American processing of the British bank Royal Bank of Scotland Group.

Hackers were able to crack data encryption to protect personal information of bank card holders and within 12 hours they removed more than $ 9 million from 2100 ATMs in 280 cities around the world.

One of the leading hackers of the group, an Estonian citizen Sergey Tsurikov, was sentenced to 2014 years of imprisonment and fined $ 11 million in 8.4. The article, on which charges were brought against Levitsky, provides for up to 30 years of imprisonment.

Read also on ForumDaily:

117 of millions of passwords and messages of users of LinkedIn are laid out in the network

Hackers first created an ransomware virus for Apple computers

Hackers stole data over 700 thousands of taxpayers