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5 charged in massive hacking
Boehner calls out King on immigration insult
By SAMANTHA HENRY Associated Press
By ERICA WERNER Associated Press
NEWARK, N.J. — Four Russian nationals and a Ukrainian have been charged with running a sophisticated hacking organization that penetrated computer networks of more than a dozen major American and international corporations over seven years, stealing and selling at least 160 million credit and debit card numbers, resulting in losses of hundreds of millions of dollars. Indictments were announced Thursday in Newark, where U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman called the case the largest hacki n g a n d d a t a b re a c h scheme ever prosecuted in the United States. Princeton-based Heartland Payment Systems Inc., which processes credit and debit cards for small to mid-sized businesses, was identified as taking the biggest hit in a scheme starting in 2007 — the theft of more than 130 million card numbers at a loss of about $200 million. Atlanta-based Global Payment Systems, another major payment processing company, had nearly 1 million card numbers stolen, with losses of nearly $93 million, prosecutors said. The indictment did not put a loss figure on the thefts at some other major corporations, including Commidea Ltd., a European provider of electronic payment processing for retailers. The government said hackers in 2008 covertly removed about 30 million card numbers from its computer network. About 800,000 card numbers were stolen in an attack on the Visa network, but the indictment did not cite any loss figure. Not all the companies the hackers infected over the years with malicious computer software suffered financial losses. Customer log-in credentials were stolen from Nasdaq and Dow Jones Inc., the indictment said, though prosecutors said Nasdaq’s securities trading platform was not affected. The indictment said the suspects sent each other instant messages as they took control of the corporate data, telling each other, for instance: “NASDAQ is owned.” The defendants were identified as Vladimir Drinkman, 32, of Syktyvkar, Russia, and Moscow; Aleksander Kalinin, 26, of St. Petersburg, Russia; Roman Kotov, 32, of Moscow; Dmitriy Smilianets, 29, of Moscow; and Mikhail Rytikov, 26, of Odessa, Ukraine.
WASHINGTON — House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday elevated his criticism of fellow Republican Rep. Steve King over King’s suggestion that many immigrants in the country illegally are drug runners, calling t h e c o m m e n t s “d e e p l y offensive and wrong.” Boehner already had issued a written statement earlier in the week condemning King’s remarks, but at his weekly news conference, he ramped up his criticism even without being asked. The Ohio Republican took the unusual step of calling King out by name, dramatizing the concern among GOP leaders that incendiary comments from the right can tarnish the party’s image even as lawmakers struggle to find a solution to the immigration debate. “I want to be clear. There’s no place in this debate for hateful or ignorant comments from elected officials,” Boehner said. “What he said does not reflect the values of the American people or the Republican Par ty,” the speaker said, “and we all need to do our work in a constructive, open and respectful way.”
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Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, speaks during a House Judiciary Committee meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday. Boehner also said that King’s comments made grappling with immigration legislation more difficult, “but I’m going to continue to work with members who want to get to a solution, as opposed to those who want to do nothing.” King, R-Iowa, told a conservative news website last week that with respect to immigrants brought illegally to the U.S. as kids, “for every one who’s a valedictorian, there’s another 100 out there that weigh 130 pounds and they’ve got calves the size of cantaloupes because they’re hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert.” The comments began to circulate widely on Tuesday, drawing condemnation
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA “Everybody rushed to the and SINAN SALAHEDDIN explosion site and saw Associated Press charred bodies that were thrown outside the cafe BAGHDAD — Embold- because of the powerful ened militants in Iraq set up explosion,” he said. their own checkpoint to kill An hour later, a bomb drivers and bombed crowd- went off inside another cafe ed cafes Thursday in the near Baghdad, killing two deadliest of a series of people and wounding six, attacks that killed at least authorities said. Hospital offi42 people, authorities said. cials confirmed the figures. More than 550 people During Ramadan, cafes in have been killed in violent Iraq become quite crowded attacks so far this month, as people gather there to according to an Associated break the daily fast. ExtremPress count, as violence con- ists have targeted crowded tinues during the Muslim cafes this year. holy month of Ramadan. Militants have grown The speaker of Iraqi parlia- bolder in their attacks as ment even has acknowl- well. Earlier Thursday, insuredged that insecurity in the gents outside the village of nation likely will get worse Sarha launched mortar after a massive al-Qaida- rounds at a nearby military claimed prison break freed base and bombed a commuhundreds of inmates. nication tower to distract The deadliest attack security forces. Then they Thursday happened when a quickly set up a fake checkbomb exploded inside a point on a nearby highway to crowded cafe north of Bagh- stop passing vehicles, said dad, killing 16 diners and Col. Hussein Ali Rasheed, the wounded 20 others. police chief in nearby Tuz Iraqi police said that the Khormato, about 125 miles blast targeted Noufel cafe north of Baghdad. near the town of MuqThe corpses of 14 drivers dadiyah, about 60 miles and passengers in a convoy north of Baghdad. of trucks caught at the Ahmed Ibrahim, a gov- checkpoint, all of them Shiernment employee, was ites, were later found, each shopping near the targeted killed by gunshot wounds to cafe when he heard a thun- the head, Rasheed said. derous explosion. In the northern city of
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North Korean veterans of the Korean War enter a cemetery for Korean War veterans on Thursday in Pyongyang, North Korea.
Foes remember Korean armistice By JEAN H. LEE Associated Press PYONGYANG, North Korea — Two decorated U.S. war veterans who survived one of the worst battles of the Korean War found themselves among former foes at a memorial ceremony Thursday as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un launched the country’s commemoration of the war’s end 60 years ago. It’s unusual for American veterans to attend official events surrounding the July 27 war anniversary in North Korea, called “Victory Day” here. The veterans are in North Korea on a mission to find the remains of a fellow aviator killed in the war, and were given little notice about the event. The ribbon-cutting ceremony to unveil a new cemetery for war veterans was brief and solemn, with no speeches. Soldiers stood at guard as a military band played the national anthem. Kim, dressed in a dark blue Mao suit, saluted and left a basket of flowers bearing a banner with his
name before the memorial. The Korean War, pitting North Korean and Chinese troops against U.S.-led United Nations and South Korean forces, ended with an armistice on July 27, 1953. A peace treaty was never signed, leaving the Korean Peninsula in a technical state of war and divided at the 38th parallel. That has not stopped the North Koreans from calling July 27 “ Victor y Day.” Brightly colored banners with the words “Victory” and “War Victory” fluttered from buildings across the capital city. The North Korean government is expected to use the anniversary to draw attention to the division of the Korean Peninsula and to rally support for Kim. Kim took power following the death of his father, Kim Jong Il, in late 2011. As leader, he has overseen two long-range rocket launches and a nuclear test that have drawn international condemnation and tightened U.N. sanctions.
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from Boehner, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., other Republicans and numerous Democrats including White House press secretary Jay Carney. They’ve also already become fodder for at least one pro-Democratic political fundraising group, the House Majority PAC, which highlighted them in an email to supporters Thursday. A small group of immigrant youths with the organization United We Dream, which represents people brought illegally to the U.S. as children, brought two cantaloupes to King’s office Thursday and delivered them to staff members. Several hours after Boehner spoke, King took to the House floor to defend his remarks and expand on them, though he did not directly mention Boehner’s criticism. “There are many, many young people coming across the border unlawfully who are smuggling drugs into the United States,” King said, adding that “no nation like the United States of America can continue to grow and be a strong nation if we are going to judge people because they disagree with our agenda rather than the content of their statement.”
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