Dutch Citizen Gets 12 Years In Prison for Hacking and Selling Credit Card Info

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Dutch Citizen Sentenced To 12 Years In Prison For Computer Hacking Scheme That Stole And Sold Credit Card Info

A Dutch citizen who was arrested and extradited from Romania was sentenced today to 12 years in prison for a computer hacking and credit card fraud scheme that victimized people around the world, announced U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan.  David Benjamin Schrooten, 22, also known in the hacking world as ‘Fortezza’ pleaded guilty in November 2012 to Conspiracy to Commit Access Device Fraud and Bank Fraud, Access Device Fraud, Bank Fraud, Intentional Damage to a Protected Computer, and Aggravated Identity Theft.  At sentencing U.S. District Judge Ricardo S. Martinez asked him, “I don’t think you would ever consider walking into someone’s home, pulling out a gun and robbing them… Did it ever occur to you that you were doing that to all your victims?”

http://www.justice.gov/usao/waw/press/2013/Feb/schrooten.html

[Just17]

Strange it was not stated where he was located when he committed the crimes.

It makes one think that he was not in the USA when the dirty deeds were done .......  would need clarification .....