TJX Suspect Charged Along With 2 Other Hackers
A suspect in the largest private records theft in history has been charged along with two other men linked to similar scams. The three men, one of them suspected of playing a role in the 45.6 million credit card data theft from retailer TJX Companies, have been accused of hacking into cash register terminals belonging to a restaurant chain and installing software that sniffed credit card numbers, as explained by the Register.
“According to a 27-count indictment unsealed Monday, the scheme was carried out in part by Maksym Yastremskiy. In July, the Ukrainian was arrested in a Turkish resort town for allegedly selling large quantities of credit card numbers, many of which were siphoned out of TJX’s rather porous network. He remains incarcerated in Turkey, where an application for extradition to the US is pending. Yastremskiy also went by the name Maksik.
The indictment also names Aleksandr Suvorov, aka JonnyHell, of Estonia, and a separate complaint names Albert Gonzales, who also went by the moniker Segvec. Together, they are accused of installing packet sniffers at 11 restaurants belonging to Dave & Buster’s. The sniffers captured track 2 credit card data as it passed from the restaurants’ point-of-sale terminals to servers at the chain’s central headquarters.”
September 23rd, 2008 at 4:50 pm
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