{"id":7472,"date":"2021-06-25T08:53:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T12:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=7472"},"modified":"2021-07-23T14:04:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T18:04:44","slug":"member-of-fin7-cybercrime-gang-sentenced-to-7-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/member-of-fin7-cybercrime-gang-sentenced-to-7-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Member Of FIN7 Cybercrime Gang Sentenced To 7 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Andrii Kolpakov, a 33-year-old Ukrainian hacker, was sentenced to 7 years in prison for his involvement in the activities of a cybercriminal gang called FIN7, known for stealing millions of credit and debit card data from across the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Justice Department also said in a news release that Kolpakov was ordered to pay $2.5 million in restitution after pleading guilty to one count of wire fraud conspiracy and one count of computer hacking conspiracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to his arrest in Spain in 2018, prosecutors said Kolpakov worked between 2016 and 2018 for FIN7, which disguised itself as a cybersecurity firm called &#8220;Combi Security,&#8221; where he rose to become a middle manager responsible for directing &#8220;a small team of hackers&#8221; who crack victims computer systems and train recruits to use FIN7&#8242; s malicious tools.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/government\/ukrainian-member-fin7-cybercrime-gang-sentenced-united-states-2021-06-24\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrii Kolpakov, a Ukrainian hacker, was sentenced to 7 years in prison for his involvement in the activities of a cybercriminal gang called FIN7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7472"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7498,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7472\/revisions\/7498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}