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Demeter

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23. Arrests in Fla., Israel tied to JPMorgan hack
Fri Jul 24, 2015, 06:37 AM
Jul 2015
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2015/07/21/jpmorgan-chase-hack-arrests-israel-florida/30469203/

U.S. authorities arrested four people in Israel and Florida Tuesday, some of whom are believed to be tied to computer hacks of JPMorgan Chase and other financial institutions.

Tuesday’s spate of seemingly unrelated arrests weren't publicly tied to JPMorgan's 2014 computer breach, which compromised tens of million accounts. But a federal law enforcement official told USA TODAY that some of the suspects in the schemes, outlined in court papers Tuesday, are also suspects in the hack.

The official, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said the suspects — rounded up over an alleged pump-and-dump scheme and an alllegedly illegal bitcoin operation — initially surfaced in the government’s investigation of last year's bank breach.

In all, Department of Justice officials Tuesday arrested four men across Florida and Israel and charged five through one indictment and two criminal complaints. A spokesman for Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office, which issued both the two bitcoin complaints and the pump-and-dump indictment, declined to comment...

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