The U.S. Secret Service arrested a Russian hacker who allegedly masterminded data breaches throughout the U.S. by attacking retail point of sale systems, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Roman Valerevich Seleznev, 30, was arrested July 5 and charged with multiple counts of bank fraud, obtaining information from a protected computer, possessing stolen credit cards and identity theft, according to court documents.
The hacker from Moscow, also known as Track2 in the criminal carding underground, was indicted in 2011 in the Western District of Washington, where he is allegedly tied to more than 180,000 stolen credit cards, the documents said.
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