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Russian man sentenced to 12 years in prison for massive JPMorgan data heist

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A U.S. federal judge on Thursday sentenced Andrei Tyurin, a 37-year-old Russian man, to 12 years in prison for his role in a hacking scheme that prosecutors say involved the theft of personal data from over 100 million customers of big U.S. financial firms. The brazen hacking operation, which ran from 2012 to 2015, is one of the biggest to hit Wall Street in recent memory. It involved Tyurin allegedly working with an Israeli man named Gery Shalon, among others, to breach big-name companies like JPMorgan Chase, ETrade and The Wall Street Journal. The scammers then sought to inflate stock prices by marketing them to people whose data they had stolen. Tyurin’s breach of JPMorgan Chase alone saw data on 80 million customers stolen, according to prosecutors. The Russian man made $19 million altogether from the hacking, the Justice Department said in a statement. The case is a win for […]

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Russian pleads guilty in massive JPMorgan hacking scheme

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Andrei Tyurin is the first to be convicted in one of the largest thefts of customer data from a single US financial institution in history. Continue reading Russian pleads guilty in massive JPMorgan hacking scheme→

Russian hacker to plead guilty in connection with 2014 breach at JPMorgan Chase

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A Russian man accused of hacking into U.S. financial networks has agreed to plead guilty in a case that resulted in the theft of information about more than 80 million people. Andrei Tyurin is scheduled to appear in a courtroom in the Southern District of New York on Monday, according to a Sept. 13 court filing from the U.S. Department of Justice. Tyurin is set to please guilty in connection with a 2014 breach at JPMorgan Chase in which hackers made off with data about some 83 million people. Tyruin was charged in the same indictment as Gery Shalon, an Israeli man who allegedly masterminded the Chase hack and other breaches, though that prosecution remains unresolved. Tyurin, now 36, also was accused of participating in a Shalon-led scheme to infiltrate other financial institutions, including E*Trade, and carrying out a securities fraud scheme in which the scammers artificially inflated the price […]

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U.S. extradites Russian accused in hack of JPMorgan Chase

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The U.S. has announced the extradition of accused Russian hacker Andrei Tyurin from the nation of Georgia for his alleged role in a hacking campaign against American financial institutions, according to the Department of Justice. “Tyurin’s alleged hacking activities were so prolific, they lay claim to the largest theft of U.S. customer data from a single financial institution in history, accounting for a staggering 80 million-plus victims,” Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said Friday. “As Americans increasingly turn to online banking, theft of online personal information can cause devastating effects on their financial wellbeing, sometimes taking years to recover.” The indictment against Tyurin does not mention the hacking targets by name, but details — the number of victims, the time of the breach, the co-conspirators, the location of the victim, etc — line up with those related to the 2014 hack of JPMorgan Chase, which led to the theft of names […]

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