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Vladislav Anatolievich Horohorin, (Russian: Владислав Анатольевич Хорохорин), alias BadB is a former hacker and international credit card trafficker who was convicted. of Wire Fraud and served 7 year prison sentence. Horohorin was arested on August 7, 2010 in Nice, France, while attempted to board airplane to Warsaw, Poland[LOT]. However, he was extradited to the United States only on June 6, 2012 based on the same charges, it took soo much time only because of complexity of formalities and international legal battle that followed his arrest. During his extraditional proceedings in France, Horohorin was encacerated in Maison D'Arret D'Aix-Luynes near Aix-en-Provence, France(fr).
According to the undercover investigation led by the Secret Service, Horohorin was one of the founders of CarderPlanet, one of several websites taken down in 2004 as part of the Secret Service’s Operation Firewall investigation, and operated by cyber criminal organizations to traffic counterfeit credit cards and false identification information and documents. These websites not only shared information on how to commit fraud, but also provided a forum by which to purchase such information and tools. “The network created by the founders of CarderPlanet, including Vladislav Horohorin, remains one of the most sophisticated organizations of online financial criminals in the world,” said Michael Merritt, Assistant Director for Investigations. “This network has been repeatedly linked to nearly every major intrusion of financial information reported to the international law enforcement community. This arrest illustrates the significance of the Secret Service’s commitment to traversing the globe in pursuit of online criminals.”
Separately, Horohorin was named co-conspirator in superseding indictment , but wasn't charged, in criminal case in District of New Jersey 09-626(JBS) where other Russian individuals were charged with successfully hacking Nasdaq, 7-Eleven, Carefour, JCPenney, Heartland Payment Systems, Dow Jones, Jetblue and 23 more corporate victims. This breach was named "Largest known data breach conspiracy ever prosecuted" by US Justice Department. None of Horohorin's co-conspirators sentenced to the moment.
Early life
Horohorin was born on September 29, 1982, and grew up in Donetsk, Ukraine. In 1999 Horohorin immigrated with his mother to Israel, where he served in Israeli Defence Forces.
Arrest, FBI investigation, guilty plea, and sentencing
Vladislav was identified as BadB in November 2009 in a sealed indictment from the United States attorney’s office. He was arrested in 2010. Vladislav managed websites associates with stolen credit card numbers.
After year and half long legal international legal battle in France, Horohorin was forcibly extradited to United States on 6/6/2012
Horohorin was extradited to the United States on June 6, 2012 and was arraigned on June 7, 2012 and detained pending trial.
According to Horohorin's PSR, he was initially placed into D.C.Jail, DC. Then into Rappahanock county jail, VA. Then into Northern Neck County Jail, VA. And then into Fairfax County Jail, VA, where he remained until his sentence.
Horohorin was represented by Arkady L. Bukh.
On April 5, 2013 Horohorin was sentenced to serve 88 months in prison for trafficking in millions of stolen credit and debit cards and for his role in the theft of more than $9 million dollars from RBS Worldpay, an Atlanta-based credit card processor
In Februry, 2017, Horohorin finished to serve his 88-months sentence and was deported from United States.
For some reason US went to extreme measures and assigned two ICE agents to escort Horohorin, while deported, through NJ to Israel, using US air companies only, while there was cheaper Israeli El-Al flight straight alternative from Boston. Such measures caused Horohorin to be held substantial extra time in ICE custody, while, according to his lawyer Arkady L. Bukh, "Horohorin opposed ICE detention fiercely, refusing to stay any extra minute in US and demmanding to be deported, claiming that his sentence is finished, offerring to pay his own plane tickets"[1]
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Post-prison activities
After finishing his sentence Horohorin works as private consultant and security auditor for cybersec.org