14 DAY TRIAL // The sentencing of Russian national Kristina Svechinskaya, known as the world’s most attractive hacker, has been postponed for the second time this year. The sentencing was initially scheduled for January 11, but it was later moved to March 1, and now to April 19, RAPSI News reports.
Although she has been named a hacker, Svechinskaya hasn’t really got anything to do with hacking, except for the fact that she worked as a money mule for a criminal organization that used the ZeuS Trojan to steal money from the bank accounts of US citizens.
US authorities are accusing her of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and false use of passports.
According to court documents, “Svechinskaya has allegedly opened at least five accounts under her own name and under the aliases ‘Anastasia Opokina’ and ‘Svetlana Makarova’ at Bank of America and Wachovia, into which over $35,000 was fraudulently eposited, affecting three victims, and from which approximately $11,000 was successfully withdrawn.”
Svechinskaya faces a maximum of 30 years in prison for the conspiracy to commit bank fraud charges and 10 years for the false uses of passport charges.