The U.S. Department of Justice has charged three men in connection to the largest data breach ever, which exposed 1 billion e-mail records from more than 100 different businesses from 2009 to 2012.
Two Vietnamese citizens–Viet Quoc Nguyen and Giang Hoang Vu, who were both residing in the Netherlands–have been charged with hacking into U.S. e-mail service providers. Montreal-based Canadian David-Manuel Santos Da Silva was charged with helping the two men knowingly convert stolen e-mail addresses into $2 million in profits via his affiliate-marketing company, called 21 Celsius, which operated a site called Marketbay.com.
According to DataBreachToday, a multimedia website that provides security, risk management, privacy and fraud information, the men allegedly hacked into the customer files of Epsilon, a company that sends more than 40 billion e-mails annually for companies including Citi, Chase, U.S. Bank, Capital One, Barclays Bank of Delaware, Verizon, Walgreens, Visa, Kroger, Marriott International, Ritz-Carlton Rewards and Tivo.
Vu and Da Silva have been arrested; Nguyen remains at large.
DataBreachToday breaks down the 29-count indictment against the men, who used both phishing and malware to hack into the system, download customer data and send unauthorized e-mail campaigns that featured fraudulent products. Click here to read the article.
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