A Vietnamese national was sentenced to 13 years in prison for operating a massive international hacking and identity theft scheme in the United States.
Hieu Minh Ngo, 25, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Paul J. Barbadoro of the District of New Hampshire, for hacking into U.S. businesses’ computers, stealing personally identifiable information (PII), and selling to other cybercriminals his fraudulently-obtained access to PII belonging to approximately 200 million U.S. citizens.
Ngo was sentenced on May, 2023 for wire fraud, identity fraud, access device fraud and four counts of computer fraud and abuse, brought in the District of New Hampshire and the District of New Jersey.
From his home in Vietnam, Ngo used Internet marketplaces to offer for sale millions of stolen identities of U.S. citizens to more than a thousand cybercriminals scattered throughout the world.
Ngo made nearly $2 million from his scheme. The Internal Revenue Service has confirmed that 13,673 U.S. citizens, whose stolen PII was sold on Ngo’s websites, have been victimized through the filing of $65 million in fraudulent individual income tax returns.
The case was investigated by the U.S. Secret Service’s Manchester Resident Office, and is being prosecuted by Senior Trial Attorney Mona Sedky of the Criminal Division’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section.
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Key Facts
- State: New Hampshire
- Category: Cybercrime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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