Here is the original Government press release: http://www.justice.gov/usao/nye/pr/2013/2013may09.html http://www.justice.gov/usao/nye/pr/2013/2013may09.html I

Here is the original Government press release: http://www.justice.gov/usao/nye/pr/2013/2013may09.html http://www.justice.gov/usao/nye/pr/2013/2013may09.html I could not locate a copy of the actual indictment, so if somebody could find a link to it I would appreciate it. I was curious to how they were caught. That they only caught the runners (the guys going to the ATM's with cards) and not the group leaders or the hackers suggests they were caught via traditional ID methods via ATM cameras[1], mobile phone or car license plates. The other evidence to support this theory is that the runners in other countries were not arrested or charged at the same time. If law enforcement took these guys down from the top, you'd think they would be able to also ID the runners in other countries. Instead, only the group of runners organized around New York were caught - 8 people, out of a group that would number at least 50 or more. I also don't understand the money laundering charge. The defendants deposited $150k in $20 bills into a Miami bank and then used the account to buy a car. That isn't doing a very good job of hiding the source of funds, if that is what their intention was. Seems very amateur and unworthy of a professional criminal organization - more likely it was the proceeds of a cut that one of the runners got. [1] During the Boston Marathon Bombing manhunt the Feds released pictures that were taken from an ATM showing Suspect #2 (later identified as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev): http://i.imgur.com/0ZF7ud9.png http://i.imgur.com/0ZF7ud9.png From the pictures you can see that ATM's take a photo when the user is approaching and while they are using the ATM (the first picture seems to be triggered by the door being opened). The quality is surprisingly good.