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Two men held in Israel and one U.S. citizen thought to be living in Moscow have been charged with stealing the contact information of more than 100 million customers of U.S. financial institutions to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal profits, authorities said Tuesday.
The summer 2014 theft of data such as names, addresses, e-mail addresses and phone numbers of more than 83 million customers of JPMorgan Chase & Co., the nation’s biggest bank by assets, was described by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara as the “largest theft of customer data from a U.S. financial institution ever.”
The indictment charged Gery Shalon, 31, of Savyon, Israel; Ziv Orenstein, 40, of Bat Hefer, Israel; and Joshua Samuel Aaron, 31, a U.S. citizen.
