The United States confirmed the arrest of transmitted RF American accused of cyber attack – RIA Novosti

01:2515.12.2016

(updated: 01:29 15.12.2016)

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WASHINGTON, December 14 — RIA Novosti, Alexei Bogdanovsky. U.S. Authorities have detained an American citizen, Joshua Samuel Aaron, accused of the theft of data about 100 million customers of JPMorgan Chase, which has previously given to Russia, said in a press release, the U.S. justice Department.

Aaron, also known under the name Mike shields, along with the detainees earlier in Israel’s accomplices Gary Deal (Harry Shalelashvili) and Ziv Orenstein is accused of “large-scale cybercrime”. Aaron will appear before the court on Wednesday evening local time (early morning GMT).

“Joshua Samuel Aaron, as we assume, worked on hacking the networks of dozens of American companies, which ultimately led to the largest identity theft in the history of US financial institutions,” said Federal Prosecutor of Manhattan, preet Bharara. The search for the suspect led the FBI and US Secret service, which, in addition to the protection of politicians, is also responsible for investigating computer crimes.

Bharara thanked the FBI and the Secret service, the Ministry of justice of Israel and the Israeli police, the U.S. securities regulators and immigration, as well as many other American companies. However, he never thanked the Russian law enforcement authorities who tracked down and given Aaron. Press release of the US justice Department does not even mention the fact of issuing, restricting only mention that Aaron “used to live in Moscow” and “was arrested at the airport of a name of John Kennedy” in new York.

Russia gave the US detained in Moscow, American Joshua Aaron, whom the us government accused in theft of data about 100 million customers of JPMorgan Chase, reported Bloomberg citing sources familiar with the situation.

Earlier it was reported that the wanted US intelligence 32-year-old American detained in Moscow, he was suspected of stealing the personal data of customers of American companies large securities fraud. The police did not name detainee, noting that he, together with accomplices have made in the homeland of the hacking actions, which led to a multimillion-dollar manipulation of the dollar shares. The decision on his deportation from Russia, came out in may, but Aaron has asked for the refugee status.

In October, Bloomberg reported that an American, Joshua Aaron, the only remaining outside the United States a suspect in major cyber attack on wall street, was detained in Moscow. It was noted that student of the University of Florida Aaron and Israel are suspected of massive theft of data from database JPMorgan Chase & Co. and other companies in the period from 2007 to 2015. It is assumed that during this time they stole the data of more than 100 million people. According to the Agency, the hackers had laundered the money through 75 companies, banks and brokerage firms around the world.