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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY |
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA |
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Hon. Katharine S. Hayden
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Criminal No. 00-611 (KSH)
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ALEXEY V. IVANOV |
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18 U.S.C. §§ 1030(a)(4) & 2
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SUPERSEDING INFORMATION |
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The United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey
charges: 1. At all times relevant to this Information, defendant ALEXEY V. IVANOV was a 20-year-old computer hacker living in Chelyabinsk, Russia, who frequently collaborated with other Russian computer hackers to gain unauthorized access to, and steal passwords, credit card numbers, and other financial information from, the computer systems of U.S. companies. Financial Services, Inc.
company located in Glen Rock, New Jersey that owned, maintained and operated a computer network for the use of its customers and employees. A computer on this network, a machine in Glen Rock identified by the company as Ralph, was one of several computers on which were stored employee passwords for the FSI computer network. Another computer on this network, a machine in Glen Rock identified by the company as Trixie, was the primary computer used by employees of FSI for storing customer credit card numbers and related customer data. The Ralph machine and the Trixie machine were used by employees of FSI in interstate and foreign commerce and communication and, thus, were "protected computers" within the meaning of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1030(e)(2)(B).
elsewhere, the defendant ALEXEY V. IVANOV and by means of such access furthered the intended fraud and obtained things of value, namely passwords for the FSI computer network, approximately 3,500 credit card numbers of FSI customers, and related card holder information.
Stealing Passwords and Credit Card Numbers from FSI Russia, accessed the Ralph machine and the Trixie machine at FSI without authorization and downloaded: (a) eleven passwords used by FSI employees to access the FSI computer network; and (b) a text file containing approximately 3,500 credit card numbers and associated card holder information for FSI customers.
passwords to a file named "PASS_FSI" on his laptop computer to facilitate future unauthorized access into the FSI computer network.
Extorting Money from FSI aliases "Alexander" and "Grisha," sent an electronic mail ("e-mail") message from Russia to an employee of FSI in Glen Rock, New Jersey, in which he stated that he was part of a group of computer hackers who had accessed the FSI computer system without authorization and had stolen customer credit card numbers and associated card holder information for FSI customers. In the e-mail message, this confederate of defendant ALEXEY V. IVANOV threatened to publicly release this stolen credit card information unless FSI paid him $3,000.
this confederate of defendant ALEXEY V. IVANOV sent this same FSI employee an electronic message via the Internet from Russia using the alias "Jimbo" in which he doubled his extortion demand to $6,000. After further communications with the FSI employee, this confederate of defendant ALEXEY V. IVANOV agreed to settle for an extortion payment of $5,000 from FSI.
e-mail message to this same FSI employee in which he threatened that he would again access the FSI computer network and cause damage to this network if FSI failed to immediately agree to his demand for an extortion payment of $5,000.
FSI to wire a total of $5,000 to a bank account at Alfabank in Moscow, Russia, as follows:
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CHRISTOPHER J. CHRISTIE United States Attorney |
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