News: Alleged RBS WorldPay hacker extradited to US
One of the alleged masterminds of a 2008 precision strike on payment processor RBS WorldPay has been extradited from Estonia to face U.S. justice.
Sergei Tsurikov, 26, of Tallinn, Estonia, was arraigned Friday in federal court in Atlanta. He faces a variety of hacking and fraud charges connected to one of the most successful computer crimes ever.
Prosecutors say that Tsurikov was one of the leaders of a gang that managed to hack into the RBS WorldPay network, and then clone payroll debit cards -- used by employees to withdraw their salaries from debit and ATM machines on payday. They distributed the cards to a worldwide network of cashiers, who were instructed to withdraw money within a 12-hour window. Hitting 2,100 ATMs, they took in $9.4 million, prosecutors say.
