Category Archives: U.S. Southern District of New York

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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Judge won’t toss ex-hedge fund manager’s claim Brevet Capital hacked his email

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A federal judge has ruled that a former managing director of Brevet Capital Management — an asset firm that oversees billions of investment dollars — can move forward with a proposed lawsuit alleging that the company hacked into his personal accounts. U.S. District Judge William H. Pauley on Tuesday denied a request from Brevet Capital to reconsider a previous court decision not to dismiss the case. In May, another judge ruled that Paul Iacovacci could move forward with claims that Brevet had violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and other laws by accessing accounts and hard drives to read his personal email and extract data from his personal hard drives. Brevet previously has acknowledged accessing the data but denies any wrongdoing. The case, first filed in September, highlights uncomfortable questions about what information employers can access about their employees, and how they obtain that access. The issue is an especially pressing security question, as […]

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