11:44 Burglars rbs world pay arrested whether to extradite? | |
| The St. Petersburg FSB conducted an operation to arrest a hacker Pleschuka Victor, who is considered the organizer of one of the most daring hackers in the history of banking. In 2008, he and accomplices broke into the billing system RBS World Pay (processing unit of Royal Bank of Scotland), stole information about debit cards bank customers, and have access to personal data of clients and banking systems, including ATM-processing and payroll (payroll) card. Somehow they were able to make even the reverse engineering of PIN-codes, reports Wired. November 8, 2008 almost simultaneously with the 44 cloned payroll cards have been withdrawn about $ 9.5 million within 12 hours in the campaign has been involved over 2100 ATMs in 280 cities, including Atlanta, Chicago, New York, Montreal, Moscow and Hong Kong. The operation of cashing involved hundreds of rank and file "tellers" (drop). Such a large amount of damage due to the fact that the hackers managed to tentatively raise the limits on withdrawals on each card to $ 500.000 through the ATM-processing, so that the "drop" getting out of the ATM all the cash that was there. The investigation showed, an operation coordinated by four people: Victor Pleschuk (28 years, St. Petersburg), Sergei Tsurikov (25 years, Tallinn), Oleg Kovelin (28 years, Chisinau) and another yet unidentified party. It is Pleschuk found a way to reverse engineering of encrypted PIN-codes. Organizers of the rally had the opportunity to observe real-time via the ATM-monitoring process of withdrawal and monitored how much money is charged on each card. After the operation, they attempted to erase evidence of their presence from the system of RBS. Interestingly, according to Russian laws for hacking Victor faces up to five years in prison. And Russia does not have an agreement on extradition of criminals from the United States. In such cases, U.S. intelligence agencies, or wait for years until a hacker does not leave for holidays abroad (for example, in this way in July 2007 in Turkey, was arrested Ukrainian hacker Maxim [Maksik] Yastremskii), or try to negotiate with Russian authorities. According to experts, in an operation to uncover the case Pleschuka FSB and the FBI have demonstrated an unsurpassed level of cooperation, but it is unlikely the issue of extradition the Russian government will meet. According to an FBI agent Hilbert, quoted by Wired, not the first time with Western intelligence agencies to conduct such operations in Russia and Ukraine, but these countries will never be extradited hackers, and give them the shortest possible time and will soon release to freedom, sometimes prematurely. Especially, if the hacker has sufficient financial reserves to protect its interests. By the way, the Estonian authorities arrested Sergei Tzurikov and has promised to extradite him to the U.S.. | |
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