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MOSCOW, Rus (AP) – A Russian man convicted of hacking into U.S. businesses to steal credit card data was sentenced to 27 years in prison and ordered to pay nearly $170,000,000 in restitution.
“The fact is; his websites, together with the criminal hacking conduct that he engaged in, essentially set up a How-To for criminals in how to obtain money through stolen credit cards,” says US Attorney for Western Washington Annette Hayes.
Roman Seleznev is the son of a member of the Russian Parliament.
He was first indicted in 2011.
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