A Russian hacker who breached the security of' WorldPay services and stole $9m (£6m) has had his property sold to compensate the bank.
Kaspersky Labs security expert Alex Gostev said that the actual hacking was not the most complicated task the criminals had to deal with.
"The most interesting part was the final stage of the attack - the organisation of mass withdrawals all over the world," he said.
"They had to find more than 150 people in [numerous] cities, give each one of them the instructions and the fake cards, organise synchronised withdrawal - all of this shows that it was a group of highly skilled professionals".
Once arrested, Mr Pleshchuk pleaded guilty.
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