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To: ION$ who wrote (31923)	1/23/1998 7:15:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 61433

Man guilty in $3.7 million hacking job United Press International - January 23, 1998 19:07 %STATE %NY %RUSSIANHACKER V%UPI P%UPI NEW YORK, Jan. 23 (UPI) - A 30-year-old Russian computer hacker is facing five years in jail and at least $250,000 in fines for orchestrating a nearly $4 million computer ripoff scam against Citibank. U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White says Vladimir Leonidovich Levin gained access to the bank's computer system from St. Petersburg, Russia, and was able to use a special bank program to steal money. Levin admitted to transfering $3.7 million from customer accounts to other accounts controlled by him and other conspirators. He is due to be sentenced on Feb. 24. Levin got into the banks accounts through a service called the Financial Institutions Citibank Case Manager, which Citibank created in 1994 to allow customers to transfer funds from their own accounts to accounts at other financial institutions around the world. Customers needed to enter a user identification code and a password to gain access to the service. Levin used the program at last 18 times in the summer of 1994 to gain access to other people's accounts. He then transfered funds to accounts he or his conspirators controlled in Finland, the United States, Holland, Germany and Israel. -- Copyright 1998 by United Press International. All rights reserved. --