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.
Roman Valeryevich Seleznev, the son of Russian MP Valery Seleznev, has been sentenced to 27 years in a US prison for causing more than $169m in damage through cyberattacks launched on small businesses and financial institutions. US prosecutors convicted the Russian national, also known as Track2, of 38 counts of hacking crimes, which included infecting point-of-sale systems in restaurants 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.