Hacker Who Sent Me Heroin Faces Charges in U.S.
Summary: Ukrainian hacker Sergey Vovnenko, known as "Fly" and "Flycracker," made his first U.S. court appearance in Newark after extradition to face charges of stealing and selling credit card and banking data, emptying bank accounts, and running a botnet of more than 12,000 hacked computers and servers. Vovnenko had earlier plotted to mail heroin to Krebs's Virginia home and tip off police, a scheme Krebs foiled in July 2013 when a package containing 12 packets of nearly pure heroin arrived and was retrieved by police.
Bottom line: Vovnenko faces up to 30 years in U.S. federal prison if convicted on all charges, a measure of how far a fraudster running a 12,000-machine botnet and a carding forum reached into a reporter's home address, credit report, and family.
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