Cybersecurity

Accused Russian Hacker on Tropical Holiday Nabbed by U.S. Agents

Roman Seleznev poses with his yellow Dodge Challenger SR automobile in front of the Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia, in this undated handout photo taken from his mobile phone and used in U.S. government court documents, and released to the media on March 10, 2015.

Source: Department of Justice via Bloomberg
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For more than a decade, the U.S. Secret Service hunted Roman Seleznev, a computer wizard suspected of being one of the world’s most prolific traffickers in stolen credit cards.

But agents had a problem: Despite three separate federal hacking-related indictments against the 30-year-old son of a prominent Russian lawmaker, Seleznev remained out of reach, in Vladivostok, Russia.