Russian hacker accused of running an online criminal marketplace pleads guilty.
Russian officials objected to the extradition. Israeli officials have suggested Russia sought Burkov's release by offering an exchange for Naama Issachar, a 26-year-old Israeli woman who received a seven-year prison sentence in Moscow on marijuana charges, The Associated Press reported.A plea agreement also says that Burkov is eligible to be deported after he serves any sentence and that he will not contest removal from the country.
A statement of facts filed in the case says that Burkov operated Cardplanet from October 2011 through at least August 2013 and that the site sold stolen card information from virtually all major U.S. payment cards. Burkov also offered a fee-based"checker" service to allow buyers to instantly validate the stolen card information, the document says.
Customers could also search the site to ensure that the stolen information would be used in the state where the victim lived, so that fake purchases would be harder to detect. The people who bought the stolen card information would then encode it on counterfeit cards. The other website was called"Direct Connection." Prosecutors said that was a secure forum for"elite cybercriminals" to meet and plan crimes.
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