The merchant-risk intelligence firm whose network breach was described this week by federal prosecutors in Manhattan is G2 Web Services LLC, a person briefed on the matter said Friday.
A global criminal ring bolstered its money-laundering operations by overseeing the hack of a company whose services include detecting credit-card fraud, according to a Nov. 10 indictment that tied suspects to the 2014 breach of JPMorgan Chase & Co. customer data. The merchant security firm -- identified in the indictment only as Victim 12 of Bellevue, Washington -- was mined by hackers seeking details that would help the ring stay a step ahead of fraud-fighting efforts.
