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Second Russian pleads guilty in record US data breach

Posted on September 17, 2015 by Dissent

Karl Thomas reports:

A second Russian man has pleaded guilty in an American court for his role in what is thought to be the biggest data breach in the history of the US.

A day after 34-year-old Vladimir Drinkman pleaded guilty in New Jersey for helping orchestrate the theft of 160 million credit card details, Dmitriy Smilianets, 32, admitted his involvement in the cyberattack.

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