Prosecutors Announce Charges in Connection With J.P. Morgan Hack
November 10 2015 - 11:20AM
Dow Jones News
Federal prosecutors unsealed indictments on Tuesday against
three men who allegedly engaged in a sprawling cybercriminal
enterprise that hacked into J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and several
U.S. financial institutions.
This is the first time prosecutors have named suspected hackers
and directly linked them to a massive cyberattack against J.P.
Morgan last year, part of an alleged scheme that prosecutors are
calling "the largest theft of customer data from a U.S. financial
institution in history."
The 68-page indictment against Gery Shalon, Joshua Samuel Aaron
and Ziv Orenstein listed 23 charges, including computer hacking,
wire fraud and securities fraud. Charges against them were filed
earlier this year, but the defendants hadn't been publicly linked
to the J.P. Morgan hack.
The indictment alleged the defendants hacked into 12 companies,
including J.P. Morgan and Dow Jones & Co., the parent company
of The Wall Street Journal, according to a person familiar with the
matter. Two other victims were online brokerages E*Trade Financial
Corp. and Scottrade Inc., the person said.
A J.P. Morgan spokeswoman said the bank has partnered with law
enforcement "in bringing the criminals to justice" and it continues
to cooperate with them on cybercrime. Ashley Huston, a spokeswoman
for Dow Jones, didn't have an immediate comment.
Write to Nicole Hong at nicole.hong@wsj.com
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November 10, 2015 11:05 ET (16:05 GMT)
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