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Russia: head of online payments company arrested over cyber-attack on rival

Xeni Jardin at 12:46 pm Fri, Jun 24, 2011

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Authorities in Russia have arrested Pavel Vrublevsky, co-founder of Russia's biggest online payment processor ChronoPay, over charges that he paid a hacker to attack his company's competitors. More: Joe Menn in the Financial Times, and Brian Krebs at Krebs on Security.

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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