Russian man sentenced to 27 years in hacking case

Saturday, April 22, 2017 - 02:11 in Mathematics & Economics

A federal judge on Friday handed down the longest sentence ever imposed in the U.S. for a cybercrime case to the son of a member of the Russian Parliament convicted of hacking into more than 500 U.S. businesses and stealing millions of credit card numbers, which he then sold on special websites.

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