Eleven Charged in Massive ID Theft Scheme
The New York charges allege that the trio were engaged in a sophisticated scheme to hack into computer networks run by the Dave & Buster's restaurant chain, and stole credit and debit card numbers from at least 11 locations. Specifically, the indictment alleges that the defendants gained unauthorized access to the cash register terminals and installed packet sniffers on them.
At one restaurant location, the packet sniffer captured data for approximately 5,000 credit and debit cards, eventually causing losses of at least $600,000 to the financial institutions that issued cards, the DOJ said.
Gonzalez is currently being held in jail on the New York charges. Turkish officials apprehended Yastremskiy in July 2007 in Turkey when he traveled there on vacation. He has been jailed there since then, pending the resolution of related Turkish charges, and the U.S. has made a formal request for his extradition. At the request of the DOJ, Suvorov was apprehended by the German Federal Police in Frankfurt in March 2008 on the San Diego charges when he traveled there on vacation. He is currently in jail pending the resolution of extradition proceedings.
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