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Benedict Collins

Russian cybercriminals returned in high-stakes US prisoner swap

US, Europe, Russia .

The United States and Russia have conducted the largest prisoner exchange since the Cold War, with a number of high-profile cybercrime actors involved in the swap.

Most notable amongst those released by the US is Roman Seleznev, known in the cyber world as Track2, who was responsible for stealing credit card details from point-of-sale systems and selling them on, a crime for which he was sentenced to 27 years in a US prison.

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