NEW YORK—A Russian national who pleaded guilty to hacking JPMorgan Chase and other financial institutions has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison, the Justice Department announced.
Andrei Tyurin, 37, pleaded guilty in September 2019 to federal charges, including conspiracy to commit computer hacking, wire fraud, conspiracy to violate the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit computer hacking.
Federal prosecutors accused Tyurin of aiding a wide-ranging criminal enterprise run by Israeli businessman Gery Shalon that included securities market manipulation, payment processing fraud as well as running illegal cryptocurrency exchanges and illegal online gambling.
The hacking operation that Tyurin helped oversee may have affected more than 100 million bank customers across the globe, including 80 million JPMorgan Chase customers, prosecutor say. They allege Tyurin collected about $19 million in illegal gains through cyber schemes.
"From his home in Moscow, Andrei Tyurin played a major role in orchestrating and facilitating an international hacking campaign that included one of the largest thefts of U.S. customer data from a single financial institution in history, stealing the personal information of more than 80 million JPMorgan Chase customers," said Audrey Strauss, the acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, which oversaw the case.