Cybersecurity
Russian Faces Hacking Charges After Israel Ships Him to U.S.
- Burkov operated marketplace for cybercriminals, U.S. charges
- Russia had tried to trade Burkov for arrested Israeli woman
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An accused Russian hacker who has been at the center of a diplomatic feud between Israel and Moscow was extradited to the U.S. to face charges that he ran websites that helped cybercriminals commit credit card fraud.
Alexei Burkov, 29, arrived Monday night in northern Virginia from Israel, where he’d been detained since his arrest in December 2015 at the request of U.S. authorities.