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January 9, 2009

TJX Credit Card Fraud Hacker Jailed In Turkey

According to The Boston Blobe A Ukrainian man accused by US authorities of involvement in the TJX data breach has been jailed for 30 years in Turkey after being found guilty of hacking the computer systems of 12 banks in the country, according to

Maksym Yastremskiy was arrested whilst on holiday in Turkey in July 2007, and accused of breaking into Turkish bank accounts electronically.

US authorities quickly linked him to the theft and sale of over 40 million credit and debit card numbers that were hacked from the computer systems of nine major US retailers, including TJX.

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Posted by David Categories: Account Compromise. Credit Card Transactions. Identity Theft. Law and Enforcement

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