Iranians Indicted by FBI for Credit Card Fraud and Computer Hacking

A superseding indictment was unsealed on August 8 2017 charging Iranian hackers Arash Amiri Abedian -31- and Danial Jeloudar -27- with:

• Aggravated identity theft 
• Wire fraud 
• Criminal conspiracy relating to access device fraud,unauthorized access to, and theft of information from, computers, and threatening to damage a computer. 

In October 2007 Abedian and Jeloudar, living in Iran, conspired together to violate multiple U.S. criminal statutes. The indictment states they obtained stolen credit card numbers and related personal information by hacking, and used that information to defraud and extort money, goods and services from victims in the U.S. and elsewhere.

Between 2011 and 2016, Abedian used malicious software (malware) to capture the credit card and other personal information of individuals who had transacted with various websites. Abedian used that information to commit identity theft and get goods and services by fraud, and, on some occasions, Abedian transmitted the stolen information to Jeloudar. On 21 February 2012, Abedian sent Jeloudar approximately 30,000 names and numbers, which he said were unauthorized credit card numbers and associated information. 
Around March 2012 and April 2012, Jeloudar ordered and obtained various equipment, servers, and internet hosting services from a provider in South Carolina using stolen credit card numbers and other personal identifiers.

Arash Amiri Abedian

Danial Jeloudar

In January 2017, Jeloudar contacted a Californian online merchant and threatened to disclose its customers’ credit card numbers and other related information previously obtained by hacking the merchant‘s website, unless it made a Bitcoin payment to Jeloudar. Jeloudar also threatened to disclose to the company’s customers that their private information had been compromised and launched a denial-of-service attack (DoS) on the company’s website.

References

U.S. Department of Justice indictment link
FBI Wanted poster for Arash Amiri Abedian link
FBI Wanted poster for Danial Jeloudar link