German gets 4 years in clink for $14 MILLION global ATM fraud A German man has been sentenced to 50 months in prison and ordered to repay $14m after he hacked into US banks, stealing debit card data and even removed withdrawal limits. Qendrim Dobruna, 29, also known as "closEd" and "cLoz", stole card data and spread it worldwide. The stolen credentials were used to make fraudulent ATM …
.. nor should there be.
English is not a complex language, at least not at the level used in general conversation. Choice of idiom and vocabulary is another matter, that is indeed a bit harder if you don't use the language on a daily basis, but maybe this will help.
Anyway, where were we? Oh, yes, nabbing card thieves. It's all jolly well that they have been caught, but what is casually glanced over in this article is that these guys managed to gain control over internal creditor account parameters such as withdrawal limits. WTF? *That* worries me.
Yes. Yes, it will. Being prejudiced against a specific person for ethnic reasons is one thing. Admitting a certain statistical tendency is quite another. And (as a person who had to put up with similar judgement myself for quite a while) I really don't care who's gonna think what about me for not giving up my right to the latter - things are what they are, denial will not change them.
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Being prejudiced against a specific person for ethnic reasons is one thing. Admitting a certain statistical tendency is quite another.
It may be worth mentioning that as a caveat then, like "based on the hacking attempts I get on my site, it appears I'm better off locking out the whole of the Ukraine".
In a US court 4 yrs is a slap on the wrist. 4 yrs for at least $14m? Hardly a deterrent and ironic in a country where shoplifting a pizza can get you life courtesy of 3 strike laws.
All for reduced incarceration for minor crimes, but large scale white collar crime is too lucrative for such leniency. Risk vs reward and all that.
I think the warning is "don't be German" (or English or any other country that has an extradition treaty with the US) The Russian and Ukrainian hackers that have stolen far more in this way are never brought to justice. Even if they were at risk of doing so, a few kickbacks to the right government officials would keep the extradition in limbo indefinitely.
In total, more than 15,000 ATM transactions were conducted in approximately 18 countries around the world using 21 compromised American Red Cross disaster relief prepaid cards, resulting in approximately $14 million in losses to the credit card processor and the American Red Cross.
Bastard should have gotten a much longer sentence like 20 to life.
Why has the ARC suffered any substantial loss ?
The thieves broke into a bank and stole some of the banks money.
The ARC would have to send out 21 replacement cards, even with the admin I can't see how it would be anymore than 200 bucks.
Are you suggesting that the card processing company is charging the customers when it is their own security that has been compromised ?
And I think it is untenable to only give 4 years for such a heinous theft. Hopefully he gets extradited to the USA after he serves three years and 9 months in Germany and gets another trial here where he should serve no less than 20 years and no time off for "good behavior".
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