http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/russian-hackers-busted-by-fbi/418504.html By Natalya Krainova The Moscow Times 06 October 2010 Eleven Russian students are among 20 people detained in the United States on suspicion of working for an international group of hackers that stole at least $70 million from bank accounts worldwide. The FBI called the hacker ring "one of the largest cyber criminal cases we have ever investigated," but news reports said the Russian detainees were only underlings looking for easy cash. Six Russian suspects were detained Tuesday, following an FBI announcement last week that five others had been charged, Rossia One state television reported, citing the Russian consulate in New York. The consulate's third secretary, Alexander Otchaynov, told Kommersant in a story published Monday that one suspect, Margarita Pakhomova, was detained aboard a plane as she prepared to leave the United States on Sept. 16. Another of the 11 suspects, Sofia Dikova, was detained in January at Newark's Liberty Airport with a pile of fake documents that the hackers used to open bank accounts, Otchaynov said. [...] _______________________________________________________ Subscribe to InfoSec News - www.infosecnews.org http://www.infosecnews.org/mailman/listinfo/isnReceived on Tue Oct 05 2010 - 22:51:55 PDT
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