Top FBI cybercrime expert was a discount furniture salesman before joining and thwarting online theft and fraud worldwide

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2690798/Top-FBI-cybercrime-expert-discount-furniture-salesman-joining-thwarting-online-theft-fraud-worldwide.html

By ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTER
13 July 2014

J. Keith Mularski's world has expanded greatly since he stopped selling 
discount furniture to join the FBI 1998. Especially since he transferred 
from Washington, D.C., in 2005 to fill a vacancy in the Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania's field office's cyber squad - which he now heads.

Since then, Supervisory Special Agent Mularski has been recognized as a 
foremost expert on cybercrime. His profile has risen even more since the 
Justice Department used Mularski's sleuthing to bring two indictments with 
worldwide ramifications.

In May, five Chinese Army intelligence officers were charged with stealing 
trade secrets from major manufacturers including U.S. Steel, Alcoa and 
Westinghouse.

In June, a Russian man was charged with leading a ring that infected 
hundreds of thousands of computers with identity-thieving software, then 
using the stolen information to drain $100 million from bank accounts 
worldwide.

Mularski, 44, said in April during an oral history interview for the 
National Law Enforcement Museum that he became a furniture salesman out of 
college because jobs were hard to come by then. He spent about five years 
in the business before joining the FBI.

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