A Russian citizen in a U.S. court pleading guilty to cyber attacks
Accused of hacking the Russian citizen Vladimir Drinkman pleaded guilty in court of new Jersey, informs Bloomberg. about it informs news Agency. in February, the Netherlands gave U.S. authorities the Russian Vladimir Drinkman accused of cyber attacks. November 4, the Commissioner of the Ministry of justice of the Netherlands job van de Sande said that the chief Minister Ivo Opstelten decided on the extradition of Drinkman in the United States. He said that the decision to extradite Drinkman in the United States adopted because a formal request for extradition from America has arrived earlier than from Russian. Recall that in a major hacking case in the U.S. are four Residents of Russia * Vladimir Drinkman, Alexander Kalinin, Roman Kotov and Dmitriy Smilianets, as well as the citizen of Ukraine Mikhail Rytikov. They are charged with fraud with credit cards and the theft of hundreds of millions of dollars. The main suspect was Drinkman. He tops the list in the international manhunt for the hackers. It was he, By assumption of the investigation, turned out to build a force for seven years criminal accumulation, which is caused, for example, serious harm to new York's electronic exchange NASDAQ and U.S. retail chains 7-Eleven. In the U.S., He has a chance to get a prison sentence up to 20 years.