TRENTON, N.J. — A New York City man was sentenced Friday to more than three years in prison for his role in an international cybercrime ring that prosecutors say hacked into the computers of more than a dozen financial institutions and the US military’s payroll service.
Richard Gundersen, 48, received a 41-month prison term and was ordered to pay $88 million in restitution. He had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, access device fraud, and identity theft. He admitted opening bank accounts in the names of identity theft victims.
Prosecutors say the scheme was led by Oleksiy Sharapka, of Kiev, who served an 8½-year sentence in federal prison in Massachusetts for a similar scheme. Prosecutors say the current scheme began around the time Sharapka was deported in 2012. He remains at large.