Five people were indicted in New York federal court on Tuesday in connection with the cyberattack on JP Morgan Chase & Co. last October, which resulted in report about 83 million bank accounts, as reported by the Wall Street Journal.
JP Morgan officials have argued since last year that the Russian government was behind the attack, but the FBI's arrests have shown something else. But as it does, the attack has been recorded as one of the biggest US bank breaches in history.
Three of the individuals were arrested on charges of stock price manipulation, while the other two were charged with operating an exchange Bitcoin without permission. Both charges do not appear to be directly related to last year's attack, but US officials confirm there is a link.
Defendants were identified after an FBI investigation that found evidence that linked them to JP Morgan's hack, as well as similar incidents that occurred at Fidelity Investments Ltd. and E * Trade Financial Corp.
Gery Shalon and Ziv Orenstein were arrested in Israel on Tuesday, while Joshua Samuel Aaron, a US citizen living in Russia, remains inconceivable.
Yuri Lebedev and Anthony Murgio were arrested in Florida on the same day because they were administrators of a Bitcoin exchange called Coin.mx.