美國宣佈逮捕盜竊信用卡號的俄羅斯公民

U.S. officials say a Russian national is in custody on charges linked to the theft and resale of tens of thousands of consumer credit card numbers.

The suspect, identified as 30-year-old Roman Valerevich Seleznev, appeared Monday in a U.S. court in Guam, where he was ordered held while awaiting another hearing July 22.

The U.S. Justice Department provided no details on the circumstances of Seleznev's arrest. But authorities say he was charged in a secret 2011 indictment that remained sealed until his capture Saturday at an undisclosed location.

That indictment alleges Seleznev installed malicious software to steal credit card numbers from an array of retail computer systems, including restaurants and other outlets in the northwestern U.S. state of Washington.

It accuses Seleznev of stealing more than 200,000 credit card numbers between November 2010 and February 2011. It also alleges he and his partners sold 140,000 of those numbers on underground websites, in a scheme that generated about $2 million in profits.

Authorities say Seleznev is known as "Track2" in the computer hacking world.美國官員說，美國政府收押了一名俄羅斯公民，指控他盜竊和轉賣數以十萬計的個消費者信用卡號碼。

這名嫌疑人是羅曼.瓦勒耶維奇.塞勒茲涅夫，現年30歲。星期一塞勒茲涅夫在關島一家美國聯邦法庭露面。法庭下令將他關押，等候7月22日再次聆訊。

美國司法部沒有提供有關逮捕塞勒茲涅夫的任何細節。不過，當局說，他在2011年的一份祕密起訴書中受到指控。直到星期六塞勒茲涅夫在某個未披露的地點被抓之前，這份起訴書一直被封存。

起訴書指稱，塞勒茲涅夫安裝惡意軟件，從各種零售商的電腦系統中盜竊信用卡號碼，被盜商家包括美國西北部華盛頓州的餐館和其它商家。

起訴書指控塞勒茲涅夫在2010年11月到2011年2月期間盜取了20多萬個信用卡號碼，並指控他及其同夥通過一個地下網站將其中的14萬個號碼轉賣出去，從中獲取大約200萬美元的利潤。

當局說，在電腦黑客圈，塞勒茲涅夫的綽號是“Track2”。