A Russian man this week pleaded guilty in a Manhattan federal court to the hacking of various financial institutions in the United States, including JPMorgan Chase and Dow Jones.
The man, Andrei Tyurin, aka “Andrei Tiurin,” admitted to also hacking U.S. brokerage firms, financial news publishers, and other American companies. He was arrested in Georgia at the request of U.S. authorities and was extradited in September 2018.
The Department of Justice says Tyurin, 35, of Moscow, Russia, is responsible for one of the largest thefts of customer data from a single U.S. financial institution in history, in which the data of more than 80 million individuals was stolen from “a financial institution headquartered in Manhattan” (i.e. JPMorgan Chase).
Prosecutors say Tyurin committed the crimes with Gery Shalon, aka “Garri Shalelashvili,” aka “Gabriel,” aka “Gabi,” aka “Phillipe Mousset,” aka “Christopher Engeham”; Joshua Samuel Aaron, aka “Mike Shields”; and Ziv Orenstein, aka “Aviv Stein,” aka “John Avery,” “in furtherance of securities market manipulation, illegal online gambling, and payment processing fraud schemes perpetrated by Shalon, Aaron, Orenstein, and their co-conspirators.”
Between approximately 2012 and mid-2015, Tyurin engaged in hacking activities that resulted in the theft of personal information of over 100 million customers of the victim companies.
He allegedly acted “at the direction of Shalon and in furtherance of other criminal schemes overseen and operated by Shalon and his co-conspirators, including securities fraud schemes in the United States,” the DoJ notes.
One of the schemes involved artificially inflating the price of certain stocks publicly traded in the U.S. Fo ..
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