U.S. Authorities Arrest Russian for hacking into U.S. Retail System

On July 5, 2014, U.S. authorities announced the arrest in Guam of Roman Vaerevich Seleznev, 30, of Vladivostok, also known as “Track2”, on charges that he perpetrated a bank fraud scheme in which he hacked into retail Point of Sale systems and installed malicious software on the systems to steal credit card numbers between October 2009 and February 2011.