Gladyr Fedor Alekseyevich

Gladyr Fedor Alekseyevich

History

2018-2019

Fedor Gladyr was detained in Dresden in 2018 and extradited to the United States, in 2019 he pleaded guilty.

2021:10 years in prison for participating in cyber attacks with damage of $3 billion

In mid-April 2021, a Washington court sentenced Fedor Gladyr to 10 years in prison for participating in cyber attacks on American companies.

According to reports, U.S. Department of Justice the 35-year-old citizen Ukraine Gladyr was the leader of hacker a group called FIN7, in which there were more than 70 people. Cybercriminals through hacking systems of American companies gained access to personal data of customers.

The cyber group disrupted computer networks in all 50 states of the United States and the District of Columbia and stole data from more than 20 million credit cards.

The defendant and his accomplices compromised millions of financial accounts and caused losses to Americans and the US economy in the amount of more than a billion dollars, the Justice Department said in a statement to prosecution spokesman Nicholas McWade.

Acting US Attorney Tessa Gorman said that some were hackers, others developed malware installed on computers, and others created malicious emails that tricked victims into infecting their company's systems. The defendant worked at the junction of all these activities and, therefore, bears the greatest responsibility for large losses caused to companies and individual consumers, she said.

According to court documents, Gladyr got to FIN7, getting a job at Combi Security's dummy company as a system administrator. The company positioned itself as a provider of security audit services (pentesting) and even had its own website, but in fact did not conduct any legal activities and did not have real customers.

According to the FBI, companies such as Chipotle Mexican Grill, Chili's, Arby's, Red Robin and Jason's Deli were among the most high-profile FIN7 victims.^[1]

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