The General Police Inspectorate informed that it extradited hacker Alex Yucel, who was arrested in Chisinau last year. The extradition took place at the Chisinau International Airport on May 26. Alex Yucel was taken over by agents of the U.S. Department of Justice and is to be tried by the competent bodies of the United States, IPN reports
According to a communiqué of the Inspectorate, Alex Yucel was arrested last November, being accused of complicity in the unauthorized accessing of information systems. Immediately after his arrest, an international operation was carried out simultaneously in 19 countries. There were performed about 300 searches and arrested 81 persons. More than 1,000 information storage devices were seized on suspicion that they were used in illegal activities, including computers, laptops, mobile phones and routers.
Earlier, the press reported that the suspect, being in Moldova, illegally obtained access to computerized data of individuals, including to input devices, being able to activate the microphone and web camera from a distance for recording sound and pictures. The victims didn’t even suspect that they were monitored and recorded while they used the information system.
