During a bail hearing held last Friday for hacker Roman Valerevich Seleznev, prosecutors revealed that the defendant's seized laptop contained 2.1 million stolen credit card numbers.
Seleznev is the son of Valery Seleznev, a member of the State Duma's Liberal Democratic Party, and is accused of hacking into the point-of-sale systems of U.S. retailers. He traded the stolen information through a forum he controlled.
At present, there is no information about where he stole the credit cards from and whether they were going to be sold to cybercriminals via underground forums.
According to Q13 FOX, the defendant's lawyers requested that Seleznev be placed under house arrest in a furnished Seattle apartment, with bail set at one million dollars.
However, U.S. District Judge James P. Donohue denied bail and said Seleznev is a flight risk, as he has no ties to Washington.
The most important reason the prosecutor did not allow his release on bail is that the hacker has the necessary knowledge to construct false documents that will allow him to leave the US border.
Roman Valerevich Selezne was convicted in absentia by the Western District Court of Washington in March 2011 on 29 counts including bank fraud, hacking into protected computers, unauthorized access to devices, and unauthorized trading.
If convicted on all charges, the maximum sentence he faces is at least 65 years in prison and a fine of $2,750,000
The hacker was arrested on July 5 by the US Secret Service at Male International Airport in the Maldives and immediately taken to a US facility on the island of Guam.
Seleznev's trial date is set for October 6, 2014.
