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 From : Vlad                                 2:5020/400     27 Sep 2001  07:49:32
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 Subject : про челябинских хакеров в штатах...
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 Two Russians accused of operating hacking scam to defraud Americans
 Thursday, September 20, 2001
 
 By SAM SKOLNIK
 SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
 
 Federal prosecutors in Seattle yesterday accused a Russian man of running a
 computer-hacking scheme that defrauded dozens of American Internet service
 providers and other businesses.
 
 Vasiliy Gorshkov and his business partner committed the crimes from their
 native country -- "where they believed, incorrectly, that the FBI couldn't
 catch them," Assistant U.S. Attorney Floyd Short told jurors in his opening
 statement.
 
 Gorshkov, 25, is on trial in U.S. District Court, charged with 20 counts of
 wire fraud and a variety of computer crimes. He faces a maximum of 100 years
 in prison.
 
 Starting in late 1999, the defendant and Alexey Ivanov, 20, hacked into
 business e-mail systems, then contacted the companies posing as "security
 consultants," according to Short.
 
 Calling themselves "The Expert Group of Protection Against Hackers," they
 offered to fix the problems for fees as high as $5,000, and in some cases
 didn't take no for an answer, according to Short.
 
 One target was Speakeasy Network, a Seattle-based Internet service provider.
 The men allegedly hacked into Speakeasy's computer system and, "with the
 intent to extort money or employment," threatened to release confidential
 information such as customer credit-card numbers on the Internet.
 
 After Speakeasy refused to pay the pair, the hackers made good on their
 threat, Short told the jury.
 
 Gorshkov's lawyer, Kenneth Kanev of Seattle, admitted that crimes were
 committed but pinned the blame on the more computer-savvy Ivanov.
 
 He is awaiting trial on similar charges in Connecticut, where he was also
 indicted.
 
 "This case is about perspective and points of view," Kanev said, adding that
 his client didn't intentionally break the law.
 
 According to Kanev, Gorshkov came to Seattle to build American contacts so
 he could bolster his Web-design and consulting business.
 
 Prosecutors say more than 40 businesses in 10 states were victimized by the
 men, whose weapons were a pair of computers in Chelyabinsk, Russia.
 
 Short said Gorshkov and Ivanov also were involved in "a massive scheme" to
 defraud the Internet-based-payment company PayPal, based in Palo Alto,
 Calif.
 
 The defendants -- using "proxy" e-mail addresses from such institutions as
 public schools -- used stolen credit-card numbers gained from other sites to
 buy goods through PayPal.
 
 Prosecutors believe the pair may also be responsible for the theft of more
 than 15,000 credit-card numbers from Western Union in Denver one year ago.
 
 After the men had sent thousands of Internet probes, the FBI set up a sting
 last year to snare them. Posing as officials from an Internet company,
 agents invited the suspects to Seattle to consult on security matters.
 
 After a meeting Nov. 10 in a makeshift office near the University District
 in which the men allegedly admitted to having a team of hackers in their
 employ, they were arrested. The meeting was caught on videotape.
 
 The Seattle trial, expected to last two to three weeks, will include
 testimony from several allegedly defrauded business executives and computer
 experts
 
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