Investigators searched more how to make money online and discovered ncux’s identity. It’s unclear how they found this but they discovered his name was roman seleznev and he was living in vladivostok, russia. The secret service went to russia and met with the fsb to see if they can help track him down. The fsb was formally the kgb and they conduct criminal investigations.

The forum’s administrators have taken measures to protect their users’ identities, such as using encryption and not keeping user data on the forum’s servers. This makes it challenging for law enforcement agencies to track down the forum’s users and shut it down. Second, the defense attorney was saying the arrest in the maldives was illegal and essentially kidnapping, accusing the us that this is a retaliation because russia is harboring snowden. The trial took about one and a half weeks and after the jurors though it over for about three hours, they found roman seleznev guilty. [music] He was found guilty on thirty-eight out of forty counts. He was accused of hacking into a pizzeria in duvall, washington but the jury found him not guilty for doing that.

This gave the secret service the ability to chat with track2. The detective then started looking at these two carding websites, bulba.Cc and track2.Name. First of all, they look identical except for two different background colors.

He wasn’t just searching for his name either but all his aliases and old names like bulba and ncux. This explains why roman went dark right after the secret service met with the fsb in moscow. With his father in this position, this was going to make it even harder to catch roman. [music] The secret service continued to monitor the bulba.Cc and track2.Name websites. They saw at one point a total of 747,000 credit cards were for sale on the site. Detective dunn bought sixteen of them off the site, specifically for the local credit union becu so he can analyze them closely.

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