Mega Penalty for cybercriminal

- A Russian cyber criminal has to pay US $ 6.9 million (almost EUR 6 million) to compensate victims. The 28-year-old maker of so-called malware has already three years in jail.

The Russian could get a longer prison sentence, but the court sentenced him Monday to the time he has already spent in jail. Nikita Kuzmin was possibly a light sentence because he cooperated with the authorities, but details about his secret.

US authorities arrested the Russian when he traveled to the US in 2010 for a conference. According to prosecutors Kuzmin was a pioneer in the field of malware software that can be used inter alia to penetrate computer systems.

Kuzmin would have made the Gozi program and subsequently rented out to criminals. Who used the malware to plunder bank accounts. The damage ran into the tens of millions.