Glib Oleksandr Ivanov-Tolpintsev, Conspiring to Traffic in Unauthorized Access Devices, Florida 2022

Tampa, Florida – In a significant blow to cybercrime, a Ukrainian national has been sentenced to four years in prison for conspiring to traffic in unauthorized access devices and computer passwords.

Glib Oleksandr Ivanov-Tolpintsev (28, Chernivtsi, Ukraine) was taken into custody by Polish authorities in Korczowa, Poland on October 3, 2020, and extradited to the United States pursuant to the extradition treaty between the United States and the Republic of Poland.

According to court documents, Ivanov-Tolpintsev controlled a ‘botnet,’ a network of computers infected with malware and controlled as a group without the owners’ knowledge. He used the botnet to conduct brute-force attacks designed to decrypt numerous computer login credentials simultaneously.

During the course of the conspiracy, Ivanov-Tolpintsev boasted that his botnet was capable of decrypting the login credentials of at least 2,000 computers every week. He then sold these hacked credentials on a dark web website called the ‘Marketplace.’ From 2017 through 2019, Ivanov-Tolpintsev listed for sale thousands of login credentials of servers on the Marketplace, including more than 100 in the Middle District of Florida.

Marketplace victims spanned the globe and industries, including local, state, and federal government infrastructure, hospitals, 911 and emergency services, call centers, major metropolitan transit authorities, accounting and law firms, pension funds, and universities.

As part of his sentence, the court also entered an order of forfeiture in the amount of $82,648, the proceeds of the charged criminal conduct. This case was investigated by the Tampa Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation’s Tampa Field Office.

The investigation also benefited from foreign law enforcement cooperation by the Polish National Police, the Polish Prosecutor’s Office, and the Polish Ministry of Justice. It was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Carlton C. Gammons.

Ukrainian national Glib Oleksandr Ivanov-Tolpintsev has been sentenced to four years in prison for conspiring to traffic in unauthorized access devices and computer passwords. Ivanov-Tolpintsev pleaded guilty on February 22, 2022. The court also entered an order of forfeiture in the amount of $82,648, the proceeds of the charged criminal conduct.

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