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Seven people around the world have been arrested in connection wi

th an international cybercrime ring that illegally accessed 1,600 Stub
Hub accounts and stole more than $1.6 million in tickets.
Authorities still dont know how the suspects gained access to the acc
ounts, !anhattan "istrict Attorney #yrus $ance %r. said at a news con&
erence on 'ednesday. (nce inside the accounts, the cyberintruders us
ed the victims pre)e*isting credit card in&ormation and credit cards st
olen &rom additional victims to purchase tickets.
+n coordinated arrests, three people were taken into custody in ,ondo
n, two in the -ew .ork area, one in /oronto, and one in Spain.
0/odays law en&orcement action re1ects the increasingly global lands
cape in which 2nancial and cybercriminals operate,0 $ance said. 03igh
ting cybercrime today, as this demonstrates, re4uires international co
operation.0
StubHub, a website where customers buy and sell tickets to entertain
ment events, 2rst discovered that more than 1,000 accounts had been
breached in !arch 5016. Soon a&ter, the company alerted police, who
started an investigation.
Authorities say they soon learned that two men, $adim 7olyakov, 60, a
nd -ikolay !atveychuk, 51, were allegedly buying the tickets illegally,
then e)mailing them to three Americans, "aniel 7etrys8yn, 59, ,auren
ce :rinkmeyer, 5;, and :ryan #aputo, 5;. According to $ance, the thr
ee men then resold the tickets and worked with several people, includ
ing Sergei <irin, 6=, o& >ussia, to launder the money using internation
al wire trans&ers and 7ay7al.
<irin is accused o& advertising his money)laundering services online a
nd turning a pro2t &or his part in the ring.
Analysts in the district attorneys o?ice investigated receipts and tran
saction records and eventually traced the e*changes to +nternet proto
col addresses, 7ay7al accounts, bank accounts and other 2nancial acc
ounts used and controlled by the suspects.
@ach o& the indicted men &ace a number o& &elony charges that include
money laundering, criminal possession o& stolen property, grand larce
ny and identity the&t.
$ance made the announcement alongside several o?icials, including S
gt. >ichard >ollings o& the >oyal #anadian !ounted 7olice and >obert
%. Sica, special agent in charge o& the A.S. Secret Services -ew .ork 2
eld o?ice.
0#riminal organi8ations such as this aspire to e*ploit and compromise
our 2nancial systems,0 >ollins said. 0/heir criminal activities are not r
estricted by our borders. +n &act, they seek to e*ploit Burisdictional bou
ndaries &or their illicit purposes. 'e simply cannot allow this to occu
r.0
Authorities said 7olyakov and !atveychuk bought more than 6,C00 tic
kets &or various events, including %ay)D and %ustin /imberlake concert
s, -ew .ork .ankees games, and /he :ook o& !ormon, a :roadway pl
ay. 7eople across the world were victims o& the scam, the law en&orce
ment agencies said.
7olyakov was arrested on %uly 6 while vacationing near :arcelona. 7et
rys8yn and #aputo were taken into custody in the -ew .ork area 'ed
nesday and went be&ore a Budge. :rinkmeyer, o& :ergen #ounty, -.%., is
e*pected to surrender in the coming days, $ance said.
Although !atveychuk and <irin remain in >ussia, authorities are hopi
ng they will be brought to Bustice, $ance said.
He added that o?icials believe they have identi2ed the primary actors
in the scam though the investigation continues.
>obert #apps, a &ormer security e*ecutive at StubHub, said the arrest
s might change the way criminals operate. 0.ou are no longer sa&e to t
ravel and operate outside o& your home country, without signi2cant ris
k o& arrest and prosecution,0 he said in an e)mail. 0+solation is a power
&ul &orce in the e?ort to change behaviors. #on2ned within the border
s o& their home country, + suspect well see a change in behavior o& so
me o& these criminals.0
"avid S8uchman, e*ecutive assistant o& the !anhattan district attorne
y, said its possible the indicted men may have met on an +nternet &oru
m &or hackers, though their relationship is not entirely clear yet
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