http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/07/tenenbaum-sentenced/ By Kim Zetter Threat Level Wired.com July 5, 2012 Ehud Tenenbaum, aka "The Analyzer," was quietly sentenced in New York this week to time served for a single count of bank-card fraud for his role in a sophisticated computer-hacking scheme that federal officials say scored $10 million from U.S. banks. He was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $503,000 and was given three years probation. The notorious Israeli hacker seemed to disappear after his 2008 arrest in Canada for his alleged involvement in a scheme that stole about $1.5 million from Canadian banks. Before Canadian authorities could prosecute him, U.S. officials filed an extradition request to bring him to the States, where he was in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service for more than a year. But after a sentencing hearing scheduled for 2009 was canceled, Tenenbaum’s case seemed to languish with little activity, until a notice about a new sentencing hearing scheduled for last November appeared in the federal court system, and U.S. District Judge Edward R. Korman formally filed his sentencing order this week. It’s not clear how long Tenenbaum was in custody after he was extradited. The U.S. Marshal Service told Threat Level in August 2010 that he’d been released on bond in March of that year, after Tenenbaum had agreed to plead guilty on the access device charge. The sequence of events, the lengthy time that the case remained inactive, and the quiet sentencing suggest that part of the plea agreement may have involved cooperation with authorities, something that is a condition of many plea agreements that involve hacking and bank fraud. [...] -- Learn how to be a Pen Tester, CISSP, ISSMP, or ISSAP with Expanding Security online. Come to a free class and see how good and fun the program really is. http://www.expandingsecurity.com/PainPillReceived on Fri Jul 06 2012 - 00:29:24 PDT
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