follow-up: Russia Arrests Alleged Mastermind of RBS WorldPay Hack

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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/03/alleged-rbs-hacker-arrested

Russia Arrests Alleged Mastermind of RBS WorldPay Hack
By Kim Zetter
March 22, 2010

Russian authorities have nabbed the man accused of masterminding a 
coordinated global ATM heist of $9.5 million from Atlanta-based card 
processing company RBS WorldPay.

Viktor Pleshchuk, 28, of St. Petersburg, was arrested by the Russian 
Federal Security Service, or FSB, according to the Sunday Mail, which 
broke the story last week in the United Kingdom.

The Financial Times confirmed the arrest this week, adding that Pleshchuk 
was among .several suspects. arrested. The paper didn.t name the other 
suspects or say when any of them were arrested. The arrests are being 
touted by some as signaling a new era of cooperation between Russian and 
U.S. authorities.

Pleshchuk was indicted in the United States last November with Sergei 
Tsurikov, 25, of Tallinn, Estonia; Oleg Covelin, 28, of Chisinau, Moldova; 
and a fourth person identified only as .Hacker 3.. The government 
described the caper as .perhaps the most sophisticated and organized 
computer fraud attack ever conducted..

The hack involved reverse-engineering PINs for payroll debit card accounts 
- the holy grail of bank card hacking.

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