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images/news/security.jpgScammers were able to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars using credit cards numbers stolen from various Dave & Buster's locations across the US. It may not be the largest data theft in history, but the three men responsible for the heist have been caught over the last year, while the case itself was only made public this week.
Two of the men, Maksym "Maksik" Yastremskiy and Aleksandr "JonnyHell" Suvorov are held on 27 counts including aggravated identity theft, unauthorized computer access involving an interstate communication, and interception of electronic communications. According to court documents seen by Ars Technica, Yastremskiy and Suvorov "made materially false representations" to gain access to the server rooms in eleven of Dave & Buster's 50 US locations. The sniffers they installed logged credit card information between April and September 2007 as it was sent from branch locations to corporate headquarters, capturing around 5,000 card numbers from one New York location alone.
The third man, Albert Gonzalez, wrote the packet sniffing software the other two used and was captured in Miami, FL within the last two weeks. Gonzalez faces one count of wire fraud conspiracy.
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Two of the men, Maksym "Maksik" Yastremskiy and Aleksandr "JonnyHell" Suvorov are held on 27 counts including aggravated identity theft, unauthorized computer access involving an interstate communication, and interception of electronic communications. According to court documents seen by Ars Technica, Yastremskiy and Suvorov "made materially false representations" to gain access to the server rooms in eleven of Dave & Buster's 50 US locations. The sniffers they installed logged credit card information between April and September 2007 as it was sent from branch locations to corporate headquarters, capturing around 5,000 card numbers from one New York location alone.
The third man, Albert Gonzalez, wrote the packet sniffing software the other two used and was captured in Miami, FL within the last two weeks. Gonzalez faces one count of wire fraud conspiracy.
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