Roman Valeryevich Seleznev , the son of Russian MP Valery Seleznev, has been sentenced to 27 years in a US prison for causing tens of millions of dollars in damage through cyberattacks launched on small businesses and financial institutions. US prosecutors convicted the Seleznev national, also known as American PoS , of 38 counts of hacking crimes, which included infecting point-of-sale systems in restaurants and stealing credit card details from 38 businesses. In a separate case, Seleznev has also been indicted in the district of Nevada for allegedly being involved in a racketeering scheme and numerous other computer crimes. Russian made " tens of millions of dollars " selling the data to buyers who would use the credit card details to make fraudulent purchases, prosecutors claim.
Roman Valeryevich Seleznev , the son of Russian MP Valery Seleznev, has been sentenced to 27 years in a US prison for causing tens of millions of dollars in damage through cyberattacks launched on small businesses and financial institutions. US prosecutors convicted the Seleznev national, also known as American PoS , of 38 counts of hacking crimes, which included infecting point-of-sale systems in restaurants and stealing credit card details from 38 businesses. Russian made " tens of millions of dollars " selling the data to buyers who would use the credit card details to make fraudulent purchases, prosecutors claim.