The detective also checked out another local seattle place called mad pizza which had been communicating to the hop one server. One had malware on it for four months, the other, six months. Then the detective drove down to a little town called yelm in washington to visit Escrow Service cosa mia. Instead he was hungry to see what was on their point of sales computers. Remote desktop enabled on it, malware installed, and it was scraping credit cards and sending them to either ukraine or this hop one server. At this point detective dunn had visited five restaurants, all of which had been hacked in the same way presumably by roman seleznev.
They found the last wifi connection on the laptop was at that fancy hotel in the maldives and he was logged into the laptop with the username smaus1 and the last application he used was a tor browser. The computer forensics team also tried to see what deleted files they could dig up. Of course they checked out the recycling bin but they also looked in the slack space.
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This text file contained 33,000 credit cards in clear text. Detective dunn was shocked and the broadway grill had no idea they had even been hacked. The detective ran a report on the credit cards in the text file and the report showed that within a day or two of the cards being stolen they already had fraudulent charges on them from around the world. This meant that whoever stole these cards had a way to move them quick.
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They also felt a big hit from customers who were afraid to come use their credit cards there. After being there for 22 years, this hack ultimately caused the broadway grill to shut down and declare bankruptcy. The secret service had to go through the 1.7 million credit cards found on roman’s laptop and inform each bank of the theft. Those cards belonged to 3,700 different banks and each of them were called. In total the secret service counted that roman had hacked into 400 different restaurants and shops to steal credit cards from, many of which were locally-owned businesses.
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