“Those who have the expertise and the inclination to break into our computer networks threaten our economic well-being, our privacy, and our national security. “This type of crime is the cutting edge,” said U.S. Dmitriy Smilianets, 29, of Moscow, allegedly sold the information stolen by the other conspirators and distributed the proceeds of the scheme to the participants. Court documents allege that the defendants hid their activities using anonymous web-hosting services provided by Mikhail Rytikov, 26, of Odessa, Ukraine. Roman Kotov, 32, of Moscow, allegedly specialized in mining the networks Drinkman and Kalinin compromised to steal valuable data. Petersburg, Russia, each allegedly specialized in penetrating network security and gaining access to the corporate victims’ systems. Vladimir Drinkman, 32, of Syktyykar and Moscow, Russia, and Alexandr Kalinin, 26, of St. It is not alleged that the NASDAQ hack affected its trading platform.Īccording to the second superseding indictment unsealed today in Newark federal court and other court filings, the five men each served particular roles in the scheme. The defendants are charged with attacks on NASDAQ, 7-Eleven, Carrefour, JCP, Hannaford, Heartland, Wet Seal, Commidea, Dexia, JetBlue, Dow Jones, Euronet, Visa Jordan, Global Payment, Diners Singapore and Ingenicard. The defendants allegedly sought corporate victims engaged in financial transactions, retailers that received and transmitted financial data and other institutions with information they could exploit for profit. The USSS led the investigation of the indicted conspiracy. Secret Service (USSS), Criminal Investigations, Newark, N.J., Division. Fishman of the District of New Jersey Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Special Agent in Charge James Mottola of the U.S. It is the largest such scheme ever prosecuted in the United States. A federal indictment made public today in New Jersey charges five men with conspiring in a worldwide hacking and data breach scheme that targeted major corporate networks, stole more than 160 million credit card numbers and resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in losses.
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