ATLANTA – Three men who hacked U.S. computers from Romania have been sentenced to prison for a fraud scheme totaling more than $21 million, federal prosecutors in Georgia said Tuesday. A restitution hearing is scheduled Aug. 30 for Teodor Laurentiu Costea, 43, Robert Codrut Dumitrescu, 41, and Cosmin Draghici, 30. Some of the servers and some of the victims were in the Northern District of Georgia. Prosecutors said that when they were arrested in Romania, Costea possessed 36,050 fraudulently obtained financial account numbers, Draghici had 3,465 and Dumitrescu had 3,278. Costea was sentenced June 11 to eight years and two months, and Draghici, was sentenced on June 12 to four years and three months in prison.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer July 23, 2019 22:07 UTC