Tyurin told authorities that he committed the crimes at the direction of his partner Gary Shalon, who operated and supervised other criminal schemes along with their co-conspirators.
These cybercriminals also committed securities fraud schemes in the United States by artificially inflating the price of certain stocks of publicly-traded companies. They marketed the stocks in a deceptive and misleading manner to customers of the victim companies whose contact information were stolen by Tyurin in the intrusions.
Tyurin used computer infrastructure located across five continents to further his hacking activities. He controlled these infrastructures from his home in Moscow. When U.S. authorities detected his hacking activities, he and Shalom worked together to destroy the evidence of their criminal activities and undermine law enforcement efforts to identify and arrest them.
Tyurin was sentenced before U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain of the Manhattan federal court.
In a statement, Acting U.S. Attorney Straus said, “From his home in Moscow, Andrei Tyurin played a major role in orchestrating and facilitating an international hacking campaign that included one of the largest thefts of U.S. customer data from a single financial institution in history, stealing the personal information of more than 80 million J.P. Morgan Chase customers.”
