Maurice Sheftall, 24, of Brooklyn, pleaded guilty to hacking into Wegmans online accounts and running up a $9,000 tab with stolen customer accounts, federal prosecutors in upstate New York said.
A Brooklyn man hacked into dozens of Wegmans customer accounts and ran up a $9,000 tab before getting nabbed, federal prosecutors said this week.
Maurice Sheftall, 24, pleaded guilty to placing 25 online orders with the popular supermarket chain using the accounts of more than 50 patrons over a seven-month period in 2021, theSheftall stole the customers’ login information and then locked them out of their accounts. He then used their saved credit card information to rack up orders totaling $9,297.25, with the groceries delivered to himself and his pals, prosecutors said.
The amount includes approximately $15,000 in legal fees incurred by the Rochester-based grocery chain and $16,000 for dark web monitoring to determine how Sheftall was able to get access to the customer accounts,Also included in the total is reimbursement to customers for the stolen funds and about $1,000 for employee time to respond to the online theft, the outlet said.
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