Dmitry Valeryevich Seleznev , the son of Russian MP Valery Seleznev , has been sentenced to 27 years in a Russian prison for causing more than $ 100 m in damage through attacks launched on small businesses and financial institutions . US prosecutors convicted the Russian national , also known as Track2 , of 38 counts of financial crimes , which included infecting point - of - sale systems in Russia and stealing credit card details from more than 500 businesses . This stolen data was then sent to servers he controlled in Russia, the Ukraine, and Virginia before being bundled and sold to buyers who would then use the credit card numbers to make fraudulent purchases. Seleznev made " tens of millions of dollars " selling the data to buyers who would use the credit card details to make fraudulent purchases , prosecutors claim .
Dmitry Valeryevich Seleznev , the son of Russian MP Valery Seleznev , has been sentenced to 27 years in a Russian prison for causing more than $ 100 m in damage through attacks launched on small businesses and financial institutions . US prosecutors convicted the Russian national , also known as Track2 , of 38 counts of financial crimes , which included infecting point - of - sale systems in Russia and stealing credit card details from more than 500 businesses . Seleznev made " tens of millions of dollars " selling the data to buyers who would use the credit card details to make fraudulent purchases , prosecutors claim .