26-year-old hacker sent to jail for 334 years, highest ever for a cybercriminal...

26-year-old hacker, Onur Kopçak, from Turkey, was sentenced to 135 years in prison on Sunday for stealing 11 people’s credit card information. This new prison sentence is served on top of his previous 199-year sentence from 2013. As a result, Kopçak will now serve a record 334 years in prison.

This new sentence hs been approved by Mersin third Criminal Court of General Jurisdiction where he was accused of selling the stolen credit card records to other cyber criminals. He is already convicted for running a phishing scam that used fake bank websites to steal online banking credentials of 43 bank customers.

The hacker was accused of charges like identity fraud, website forgery, wire fraud, and access device fraud. As the investigation of his previous case proceeded, 11 cases were filed against him by the banks that earned him an extra 135 years in prison.

The Turkish media website Daily Sabah writes that Onur Kopçak currently resides in the Osmaniye prison in southern Adana province. Full story...

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