Gary Shalon and Ziv Orenstein, two Israeli citizens, were arrested in Israel and extradited to the U.S. to stand trial for the theft of personal information on 83 million customers from JPMorgan.

A third defendant, Joshua Aaron, is believed to be in Russia where he will be extradited to the U.S. He is a U.S. citizen.

The three are thought to be behind the JPMorgan hack that stole the personal information on more than 100 million people.

With that information, the group was then able to further other illegal practices, including pump & dump emails scams, online casinos and the operation of unlicensed money laundering bitcoin exchange.

In a related matter, Anthony Murgio and Yuri Lebedev were arrested and charged in New York for operating the Coin.mx bitcoin exchange.

The FBI released a statement that said, "In doing so, Murgio, and his co-conspirators knowingly enabled the criminals responsible for those attacks to receive the proceeds of their crimes, yet, in violation of federal anti-money laundering laws, Murgio never filed any suspicious activity reports regarding any of the transactions."

Authorities feel that the indictments are related because both Murgio and Aaron were apparently friends at Florida State university. They both traveled to Russia and they are thought to have connections with the Russian underground.

Source: Security Week