Evgeny Levitskyy Faces 30 Years in 2008 WorldPay Heist
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 08/09/2016 10:06 AM
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Remember the 2008 RBS WorldPay hack that saw criminals stealing $9 million from 2,100 ATMs in at least 280 cities, in less than 12 hours?
Evgeny Tarasovich Levitskyy, a Ukrainian, will face the charges in front of a US judge after he was captured in the Czech Republic.
Levitskyy is one of the smaller pawns in a large group led by Estonian national Sergei Tsurikov. So far, authorities have captured Russian nationals Viktor Pleshchuk, Evgeniy Anikin, and Roman Seleznev; Estonian nationals Sergei Tsurikov, Igor Grudijev, Ronald Tsoi, Eveilyn Tsoi, and Mikhail Jevgenov; Moldovan national Oleg Covelin; Ukrainian nationals Vladimir Valeyrich Tailar and Evgeny Levitskyy; Nigerian national Ezenwa Chukukere; American national Sonya Martin; and Vladislav Horohorin, who is a citizen of Russia, Israel, and the Ukraine.
U.S. officials have identified the main ringleaders: Sergei Tsurikov, 25, of Tallinn, Estonia, Viktor Pleshchuk, 28, of St. Petersburg, Russia, Oleg Covelin, 28, of Chisinau, Moldova, and Eugene Anikin, of Novosibirsk, Russia.
The criminals cracked the encryption on the WorldPay servers. They gathered information about customer bank accounts associated with payroll debit cards and created fake cards with withdraw limits raised to $1,000,000.
Levitskyy faces 30 years in prison and a fine of up to $1,000,000.
Source: SoftPedia
Evgeny Tarasovich Levitskyy, a Ukrainian, will face the charges in front of a US judge after he was captured in the Czech Republic.
Levitskyy is one of the smaller pawns in a large group led by Estonian national Sergei Tsurikov. So far, authorities have captured Russian nationals Viktor Pleshchuk, Evgeniy Anikin, and Roman Seleznev; Estonian nationals Sergei Tsurikov, Igor Grudijev, Ronald Tsoi, Eveilyn Tsoi, and Mikhail Jevgenov; Moldovan national Oleg Covelin; Ukrainian nationals Vladimir Valeyrich Tailar and Evgeny Levitskyy; Nigerian national Ezenwa Chukukere; American national Sonya Martin; and Vladislav Horohorin, who is a citizen of Russia, Israel, and the Ukraine.
U.S. officials have identified the main ringleaders: Sergei Tsurikov, 25, of Tallinn, Estonia, Viktor Pleshchuk, 28, of St. Petersburg, Russia, Oleg Covelin, 28, of Chisinau, Moldova, and Eugene Anikin, of Novosibirsk, Russia.
The criminals cracked the encryption on the WorldPay servers. They gathered information about customer bank accounts associated with payroll debit cards and created fake cards with withdraw limits raised to $1,000,000.
Levitskyy faces 30 years in prison and a fine of up to $1,000,000.
Source: SoftPedia
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