[HIB]Estonian hacker pleads not guilty to bilking cash

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An extradited Estonian hacker has pled not guilty to bilking the Royal Bank of Scotland of nine million dollars in a single day by tampering with its payroll debit cards around the world, US officials have said.Sergei Tsurikov, 26, was extradited from Estonia on charges he and a team of young hackers committed wire and computer fraud and aggravated identity theft, which could land him in jail for up to 35 years and a fine of up to 3.5 million dollars.The US Justice Department said Tsurikov and his people on November 2008 managed to break into the US-based RBS WorldPay site, which handles payroll debit cards used by various companies to pay their employees, who then can draw their wages from an automated teller machine, or ATM.

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