Russian national Aleksei Burkov was extradited from Israel to the US last night to face charges of credit & debit card fraud, identity theft, computer hacking & various other crimes.
He ran two websites that operated as his criminal front.
He ran two websites that operated as his criminal front.
One website was called "CardPlanet" where he stolen sold credit and debit card numbers, gained mostly by hacking, and most of those cards belonged to US citizens. Those stolen card numbers resulted in over $20 million of fraudulent credit & debit card charges.
The DOJ didn't name his other website, but said it was invite only and was used for criminal to advertise stolen goods, malicious software, hacking services, and money laundering services. Criminal on this site had to pay $5000 as insurance to vouch for new criminal members.
