NYC Hacker Charged Over $94 Million Bitcoin-for-Cards Scheme

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NYC Hacker Charged Over $94 Million Bitcoin-for-Cards Scheme

New York City resident Vitalii Antonenko was charged for allegedly participating in a $94 million Bitcoins-for-cards scheme, according to a May 27 statement from the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts. He is now facing up to 20 years in jail and $500,000 in fines.

Antonenko was arrested in March 2019 at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport after he arrived there from Ukraine carrying devices “that held hundreds of thousands of stolen payment card numbers”.

According to the prosecution, the suspect and his co-conspirators used SQL injection attacks to extract payment card data from vulnerable networks, and then sold it on “online criminal marketplaces”, likely referring to the darknet.

In June 2019, the defence requested a psychiatric evaluation of their client after he started showing signs of instability and claimed he was secretly working for the CIA.

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