Alexander Tverdokhlebov, 29, pleaded guilty to wire fraud in March. He offered stolen personal and financial information on elite Russian-speaking cybercriminal forums. Federal authorities seized approximately $5 million in Bitcoin and $272,000 in cash from him. He boasted he possessed 40,000 stolen credit card numbers and controlled as many as 500,000 infected computers for his botnets. At the time of his arrest in February, he was booked on trying to steal money from thousands of online bank accounts.”]

