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. In the state of Georgia, he has been charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud, committing bank fraud, and four counts of wire fraud. 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. The case against him was brought by the FBI, who said he had targeted companies that were part of an international criminal network called AlphaBay.
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. The case against him was brought by the FBI, who said he had targeted companies that were part of an international criminal network called AlphaBay.