A Ukrainian man, Vitalii Chychasov (37) who was arrested in March 2022 while attempting to enter Hungary and extradited to the US four months later, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit access device fraud and trafficking in unauthorized access devices through the now-shutdown SSNDOB Marketplace.
The man was the administrator of the SSNDOB Marketplace, a websites that sold sensitive personal information of people in the United States, including their full names, dates of birth, and Social Security Numbers (SSNs).
According to the court document, investigators obtained a digital copy of the servers behind the domains and also made an undercover purchase from the marketplace, both taking place around May 2020.
Tracking the Bitcoin transaction used to make the purchase led the investigators to a wallet that had received 989 Bitcoin between August 2017 and October 2021. The wallet had transferred approximately 45.99 of the bitcoin to a HitBTC account in 19 transactions.
Information acquired from HitBTC revealed that the receiving account belonged to Chychasov. Chychasov used his Ukranian passport to verify his identity when he opened the account.
Further investigations revealed that Chychasov had an account on Bitfinex under the username "ramashka." The account was linked to the email address ramashka@india.com. This email address was used to register the ssnob.ws domain on November 4, 2015.
From August 2017 to September 2018, Chychasov's Bitfinex account received approximately 53.6 Bitcoin from the SSNOB Bitcoin wallet.
The investigators seized the marketplace's domains, including ssndob.ws, ssndob.vip, ssndob.club, and blackjob.biz on June 7, 2022.
Chychasov pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit access device fraud and trafficking in unauthorized access devices and now faces a maximum of 15 years in prison. In addition to pleading guilty, Chychasov agreed to forfeit $5 million.
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