A Russian accused of being a black-market broker for the most prolific computer hacking ring to hit corporate America pleaded guilty, a day after his friend admitted stealing 160 million credit- and debit-card numbers (United States v. Drinkman, D.N.J., 09-cr-00626, plea entered 9/16/15).
Dmitriy Smilianets admitted Sept. 16 in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey in Camden that he sold information stolen from 17 retailers, financial institutions and payment processors, including Nasdaq OMX Group Inc., 7-Eleven Inc., Carrefour SA and J.C. Penney Co.
Smilianets and hacker Vladimir Drinkman, friends from Moscow, were arrested ...
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