'High-level' organiser of FIN7 hacking group sentenced to ten years in prison
A "high-level manager" of the FIN7 hacking group has been sentenced to ten years in prison. The US Department of Justice described Ukranian national Fedir Hladyr, 35, as a systems administrator for the FIN7 hacking group.
He was arrested in Germany, in 2018 at the request of U.S. law enforcement and was extradited to Seattle. In September 2019, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit computer hacking.
Hladyr served as FIN7's systems administrator and played a central role in aggregating stolen payment card information, supervising FIN7's hackers, and maintaining the elaborate network of servers that the group used to attack and control victims' computers, according to the Department of Justice. He also controlled the organization's encrypted channels of communication, it said.
