August 16, 2024 at 11:03AM
A 27-year-old Russian national, Georgy Kavzharadze, has been sentenced to over three years in prison for selling financial information and login credentials on the now-defunct dark web marketplace Slilpp. He is ordered to pay $1,233,521.47 in restitution and is estimated to have made over $200,000 in profits from the illegal sales. The marketplace was dismantled in June 2021.
Summary:
– Georgy Kavzharadze, a 27-year-old Russian national, has been sentenced to over three years in prison for selling financial information, login credentials, and personally identifying information (PII) on the now-defunct dark web marketplace Slilpp.
– Kavzharadze, who went by the online monikers TeRorPP, Torqovec, and PlutuSS, is believed to have listed over 626,100 stolen login credentials for sale on Slilpp and sold more than 297,300 of them on the illicit marketplace between July 2016 and May 2021, resulting in $1.2 million in fraudulent transactions.
– He is estimated to have made no less than $200,000 in profits from the sale of stolen credentials.
– Slilpp, which specialized in the sale of login credentials, was dismantled in June 2021 as part of an international law enforcement operation involving authorities from the U.S., Germany, the Netherlands, and Romania.
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