(((I'd be guessing this Estonian guy is young enough that he really enjoyed hanging out at "Dave and Buster's.")))
(((I'm starting to wonder if there are any cybercrime gangs in the world whose personnel are NOT radically multinational. It seems like you need, at a minimum, denizens of three different continents, even to knock over a gaming arcade.)))
LEGAL MATTERS
–Three Arrested in Dave & Buster's Data Theft
(May 12, 2008)
Three men have been arrested in connection with attacks on cash register terminals at Dave & Busters restaurants in the US. Two of the men,
Maksym Yastremskiy of Ukraine and Aleksandr Suvorov of Estonia, allegedly broke into 11 cash register terminals, placed packet sniffers on the systems and stole credit card details; they allegedly sold the information to other people who used it to make fraudulent purchases.
The sniffers captured data as they were being sent from the point-of-sale server through the system at corporate HQ to the data processor's system. A third man, Albert Gonzalez of Miami, is being charged with wire fraud conspiracy. According to the indictment, losses incurred from data theft at one restaurant alone totaled more than US
$600,000. (((That'll buy a lot of 50-cent shoot 'em ups, folks.)))
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