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Estonian hacker sentenced for Dave and Buster's card theft

posted onJuly 20, 2012
by l33tdawg

A member of hacking ring that embarked on a daring cyber crime spree from 2005 to 2008 has been sentenced to seven years in prison, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday.

Aleksandr Suvorov, 28, of Estonia admitted in May 2009 that he had helped infiltrate computer networks run by the Dave & Buster's restaurant chain, from which hackers stole roughly 80,000 credit and debit card numbers at 11 locations.