The property of the St. Petersburg hacker was sold on account of the Royal Bank of Scotland

The Russian auction house sells property of one of the organizers of hacking the payment system RBS Worldpay. Two apartments left the hammer in St. Petersburg (one of them is located in the city center, on Rubinstein Street) and two cars (BMW and Lada Kalina), reports Fontanka.ru .

The total revenue amounted to 10 million rubles. Initially, the property of the hacker Viktor Pleshchuk was estimated at 8 million rubles, but in the process of trading the price increased by 30 percent. This was announced to the publication by Deputy Head of the Russian auction House Konstantin Raev.

It was reported that the auction was organized on the initiative of the hacker. The total amount that the culprit must pay the bank is not disclosed. In the same way, the property of the accomplice of Pleshchuk, a resident of Novosibirsk Evgeny Anikin, will be sold. The Russian auction house intends to carry out this deal in October.

Recall that Pleshchuk and Anikin in 2008 founded an international group of hackers, which managed to steal confidential information about bank customers. Hackers made fake plastic cards, with which they cashed more than $ 10 million at ATMs.

In 2009, Evgeny Anikin was detained, and in 2010 Viktor Pleshchuk was arrested. Both hackers received conditional terms. Pleshchuk was sentenced to six years conditionally, and Anikin - to three years in prison. According to the Internet publication, the hackers went to active cooperation with the investigation, for which they received the condescension of the court.