FIN7 Cybercrime Boss Gets 7-Year Jail Sentence

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FIN7’s Ukrainian cybercrime operative has been sentenced to seven years in prison for running a criminal scheme that allowed FIN7 to hack millions of customers’ credit and debit cards, as reported by The Hacker News.

As a member of the organization from April 2016, the defendant was responsible for other hackers charged with spreading malware capable of obtaining financial information. Kolpakov was ordered to pay $2.5 million in restitution by the Western District of Washington. 

Andrii Kolpakov, 33, was detained on June 28, 2018 and one year later, authorities successfully extradited him to the U.S. In June 2020, Kolpakov pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit computer hacking.

Other members of the organization who have been arrested were responsible for other hackers accused of breaking into point-of-sale systems in the U…

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