Kavzharadze Georgy

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2024: US sentencing - 3 years in prison for selling financial data to companies

In mid-August 2024, it became known that a US court sentenced a Russian to 3 years in prison for selling financial information and credentials on the Slilpp criminal Internet site.

In the dock was 27-year-old Georgy Kavzharadze, known by such online pseudonyms as "TeRorPP," "Torqovec" and "PlutuSS," who was extradited to the United States in 2022 and pleaded guilty in February 2024. He was ordered to return $1.2 million earned by illegal transactions, the US Department of Justice said in a statement.

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Kavzharadze put up more than 620,000 stolen credentials for sale on the Slilpp darnet site between 2016 and 2021 and sold nearly 300,000 of them, according to court documents. Shoppers could use this information to steal money from online payment accounts and victims' bank accounts. Credentials included access to bank accounts located in New York, California, Nevada and Georgia. Kavzharadze accepted bitcoins as payment.

Law enforcement seized Slilpp servers and domains in 2021. Prior to closure, the Slilpp site operated on multiple domains on both the public Internet and the darknet. In Slilpp's nine years on the site, authorities said more than 80 million credentials relating to the activities of more than 1,400 companies had been sold on the site.

The seized Slilpp database contained information about Slilpp suppliers, customers and transactions. Including law enforcement agencies gained access to information about subscribers and payments for individual accounts used to buy and sell credentials. This data was used as a basis for accusing a number of persons involved in the sale of confidential information.^[1]

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