Tag: Ziv Orenstein

We chatted with ChatGPT about Gery Shalon. The AI language model said that Shalon is a Georgian-born Israeli national who was the mastermind in a large-scale cybercrime case. He was arrested in 2015 and later extradited to the United States to face charges. His co-conspirators included Ziv Orenstein and Joshua Aaron. The three men were accused of working together to carry out several high-profile cyber crimes, including the 2014 data breach at JPMorgan Chase, one of the largest financial data breaches in U.S. history.

In 2015, U.S. prosecutors charged the Georgia-born Israeli citizen Gery "Gabi" Shalon in a twenty-three count Superseding Indictment. He was charged with computer hacking, securities fraud, aggravated identity theft, illegal online gambling, illegal money transmitting business, and money laundering. Most of the files are still unsealed. What is known now is that in April 2017, Shalon has pled guilty to all 23 counts and made a plea deal with prosecutors that included transferring all seized funds and assets to the United States. We are talking about a real big fortune. We are talking about a real big fortune including a $74.7M bank account.

The Georgian-born Israeli Gery "Gabi" Shalon is arguably the mastermind of the world's largest cybercrime organization, stretching over the U.S., Europe, Russia, Georgia, Israel into Asia. The Israeli accountant Ziv Orenstein was one of Shalon's deputies in the U.S. There, they operated illegal gaming schemes and performed the largest cybercrime attack ever on the U.S. financial industry. While waiting for his U.S. trial Shalon continues to operate his cybercrime ventures.

The Russian citizen Andrei Tyurin was arrested in the Republic of Georgia and extradited to the U.S. last year, faces hefty fines. He was pleading guilty to charges that he stole data on more than 80 million clients of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and other institutions that netted hundreds of millions of dollars in ill-gotten gains.

With changing times and technology, criminals have taken to the world wide web and just like the real world,...