The hacker behind the 2014 JP Morgan hack, the largest hack ever, has been arrested in Russia
Do you remember the big hack of 2014? In August 2014, the financial giant and largest bank in the United States of America, JPMorgan Chase, fell victim to hacking by unknown hackers, who penetrated the bank's servers and stole personal information that the bank has yet to recover.
Finally, after two years, the United States Department of Justice has managed to track down the man behind the massive bank hacking. A Maryland man accused of participating in a scheme described by the Justice Department as “online securities fraud on steroids” was arrested in Russia, where he had fled several months ago after a massive manhunt, according to Bloomberg.
Joshua Aaron, 32, was arrested in May after police showed up at his apartment near central Moscow and found he had violated the terms of his visa. Aaron was then jailed in a Russian prison and deported from the country.
The FBI, which was already deporting Aaron, issued an arrest warrant in June 2015, charging him with crimes including conspiracy to commit computer hacking, securities fraud, and aggravated identity theft. However, the FBI failed to negotiate with Russian authorities to stop Aaron's deportation, despite the fact that he was on the FBI's "Most Wanted" list of suspected cybercriminals.
The biggest obstacle to Aaron’s transfer to the United States was that Russia does not have an extradition treaty with the U.S. Eventually, the Justice Department and the FBI were able to reach some sort of compromise so that he could stand trial in the United States. Instead, Russia offered to send Aaron to the U.S. in exchange for a “mutual” act, according to the court hearing the case.
Meanwhile, Aaron is free to leave the country, according to the Russian judge's decision, and he doesn't know that he is the world's most wanted cybercriminal in the United States, according to the Bloomberg report.
