Carding Kingpin Sentenced Again. Yahoo Hacker Pleads Guilty
Summary: Roman Seleznev, already serving a record 27-year U.S. sentence for cybercrime, received a concurrent 14-year sentence in Atlanta for a credit card and identity theft conspiracy prosecutors say netted more than $50 million, tied to the 2008 RBS Worldpay heist and his role at the carder[dot]su forum. Separately, Karim Baratov, a 22-year-old Canadian and Kazakh national, pleaded guilty to nine counts for hacking Yahoo accounts, admitting he hacked more than 11,000 webmail accounts and at least 80 on behalf of an FSB co-conspirator.
What's compelling: The laptop found on Seleznev at arrest held more than 1.7 million stolen card numbers, and evidence showed he defrauded more than 3,400 financial institutions - a reminder that one actor's cache can touch thousands of institutions at once.
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