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Man Who Tried to Frame Brian Krebs In Heroin Plot Pleads Guilty to Cybercrime Charges

Posted on January 22, 2016 by Dissent

Brian Krebs writes:

A Ukrainian man who tried to frame me for heroin possession has pleaded guilty to multiple cybercrime charges in U.S. federal court, including credit card theft and hacking into more than 13,000 computers.

Sergey Vovnenko, 29, entered a guilty plea in Newark, New Jersey to charges of aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Prosecutors said Vovnenko operated a network of more than 13,000 hacked computers, using them to harvest credit card numbers and other sensitive information.

Read more on KrebsOnSecurity.com


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