Russian hacker sentenced to 9 years in prison in the United States

Alexander Tverdokhlebov, a Russian hacker based in Los Angeles, has recently been sentenced to 9 years in prison. The reason for this penalty is that Alexander had launched distributed botnets on the network, reaching half a million computers and stole and trafficked the data of thousands of credit cards.

Russian hacker sentenced to 9 years in prison in the United States

Apparently, the Russian was part of several groups of Russian cybercriminals, the vast majority of them related to money laundering or private data sale activities. The attacker carried the majority of his attacks between 2009 and 2013. At that time he boasted of possessing the data of more than 40, 000 credit cards.

9 years in prison

In 2007 he emigrated to the United States from Russia, even obtaining American citizenship a couple of years later. Apparently, he hired two young Russian students to collect money from various bank accounts. It has been leaked that at the time of his arrest Alexander owned about $ 5 million in Bitcoins. And also about $ 272, 000 in cash.

The indictment claims that Alexander stole sensitive information from at least 100 people. And that with these acts it caused losses of between 9.5 and 25 million dollars to said victims. Although the number of victims could be really higher.

Finally, after being arrested in March, the Russian hacker faced trial on Monday in Los Angeles. He has finally been sentenced to 9 years in prison, sentenced by a federal court. What do you think of this sentence received by the Russian hacker?