Lithuanian bloke gets half a decade for the mother of all phishing schemes
A Lithuanian hacker will spend the next five years behind bars for masterminding a massive $120m (£92.05m) business email compromise involving Facebook and Google.
The New York Southern US District Court on Thursday handed Evaldas Rimasauskas the 60 month sentence, along with a bill for $26,479,079 in restitution, after he admitted to one count of wire fraud. He had faced a maximum of 30 years in prison.
This came after Rimasauskas pled guilty to overseeing the phishing scam that allowed him to collect money transfers from Google and Facebook under the guise of a Taiwanese equipment manufacturer.
According to the guilty plea R ..
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