A 27-year-old Russian national was given a sentence of more than three years in prison for selling login passwords, financial information, and other personally identifiable information (PII) on the Slilpp dark web marketplace, which is no longer in operation.
Earlier in February, Georgy Kavzharadze, 27, of Moscow, Russia, entered a guilty plea to one count of conspiring to commit wire fraud and bank fraud. Kavzharadze has been sentenced to 40 months in prison as well as $1,233,521.47 in compensation.
It is estimated that between July 2016 and May 2021, the defendant—who also went by the online aliases TeRorPP, Torqovec, and PlutuSS—listed over 626,100 stolen login credentials for sale on Slilpp and sold over 297,300 of them on the black market..
Following that, those credentials were connected to fraudulent transactions totaling $1.2 million, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) read more about Russian Hacker Jailed 3+ Years for Selling Stolen Credentials on Dark Web.
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