Ehud Tenebaum (The Analyzer) Pleads Guilty to Hacking $10 Million from Banks

The Analyzer’ Pleads Guilty in $10 Million Bank-Hacking Case




By Kim Zetter | Wired

Ehud Tenenbaum, aka “The Analyzer,” quietly pleaded guilty in New
York last week to a single count of bank-card fraud for his role in a
sophisticated computer-hacking scheme that federal officials say scored
$10 million from U.S. banks.



Editor's Tongue in Cheek  Note:  Now that both "The Analyzer" and "The Soup Nazi" are in Federal custody, it looks like the threat is over!  Man, those two guys sure wreaked havoc.  Good thing we caught them!  Now I look forward to typing my credit and debit card numbers into boxes on merchant websites and pick and pecking my username: and my 7 digit password: (1 of them is a number to make it harder!)  into boxes at online banks with the peace of mind in knowing that these two bad guys have been caught!   Here's more on E.T. from Wired:

The Israeli hacker was arrested in Canada last year for allegedly
stealing about $1.5 million from Canadian banks. But before Canadian
authorities could prosecute him, U.S. officials filed an extradition
request to bring him to the States.  (I think they whisked him here)

Prosecutors alleged in an extradition affidavit that Tenenbaum
hacked into two U.S. banks, a credit- and debit-card distribution
company and a payment processor, in what they called a global
“cash-out” conspiracy. But he was only charged with one count of
conspiracy to commit access-device fraud and one count of access-device
fraud.



Tenenbaum is set to be sentenced Nov. 19, and he faces a maximum of
15 years in prison. Prosecutors declined to comment on the case or
describe the details of his plea agreement. The second count in the
indictment, charging conspiracy, appears to have been dropped.

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