A member of the hacking ring responsible for
the 2008 cyber-attack on WorldPay, a former payment processing
division of the Royal Bank of Scotland, has been handed a five-year
suspended sentence by a Russian court.
According to Russian news agency RIA Novosti,
Yeygeny Anikin pleaded guilty to the fraud charges, whereby $9.4m
was stolen from more than 2,100 ATM terminals across 280 cities in
a 12-hour window on the 8 November 2008.
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RIA Novosti reports that Anikin appealed to
the judge for leniency and said he had already started to pay back
the stolen money during his final comments to the court in
Novosibirsk.
“I want to say I repent and fully admit my
guilt,” Anikin is reported to have told the court.
Anikin, along with an alleged seven
accomplices, hacked into the data of 44 employee payroll cards and
subsequently destroyed the data in an attempt to cover up the
fraud.
The cloned debit cards were distributed to 44
‘cashers’ who were instructed to withdraw money within an allotted
time period. Authorities say the ‘cashers’ were able to keep
between 30% and 50% of the money, with Anikin and others receiving
the rest through WebMoney and Western Union accounts.
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