Russian accused of hacking is arraigned in Seattle

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-EXCITE

By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP

SEATTLE (AP) — A Russian lawmaker's son accused of hacking computers at hundreds of U.S. businesses and stealing credit card information pleaded not guilty to 29 charges Friday.

U.S. District Judge John L. Weinberg ordered Roman Seleznev, of Vladivostok, Russia, held without bail until a hearing Aug. 16 to consider his custody status. His trial has been set to begin Oct. 6.

A 2011 grand jury indictment alleges Seleznev stole more than 200,000 credit card numbers and sold more than 140,000 of them, generating more than $2 million in profits. Some of the victims are in Seattle, where the investigation was centered and an indictment was filed.

Seleznev was arrested last month at an airport in the Maldives and flown to the U.S. territory of Guam, where another federal judge sent him to Seattle to face the charges.

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[Sunlei]

1. "Russian lawmaker's son" If only OUR Gov. would spend a bit of time to go after domestic corruption

and fraud.

[RiverNoord]

2. Well, my company's Microsoft servers got attacked

by Russian cybercriminals ('Cryptowall') about a month ago, and the attack cost some data and an awful lot of my time. So... as much as I agree with you about the domestic corruption and fraud (which has become institutionalized), I'm perfectly happy seeing some Russian hacker bastards get prosecuted. If I'm ever so lucky as to meet the ones that pulled off the Cyberwall attack on my company, well... I'm a very nice guy. Generally.

[Sunlei]

4. If you build it 'they' will come. Those words were from a ms game developer about 20ish years ago,

when he was talking about 'clever people' who can crack, reverse engineer or hack just about anything to do with computers.

I don't think it's a wise idea for any company to store or save customers credit card or personal information.

Used to be Korea, (the college students first) and China has always been great at stealing technology.

Russia has come a long way recently. Even Putin has started using twitter finally and just started requiring ID of any of his citizens to use the internet.

[RiverNoord]

6. It's a simple formula.

In large areas where there are skilled programmers with few jobs, some will turn to cybercrime.

[Fred Sanders]

3. Hey, everyone is doing it! Even Israel on Americas Secretary of State. No problem, right?

[Earth_First]

5. Israel is stealing SoS Kerry's banking and credit card information?

[RiverNoord]

7. Naah - they leave that to the NSA.