Dude really used 123 in his password hahahahahaha

This guy is the prime example of why you should 'quit while you're ahead'. He had many chances to learn, even had a near-death experience by random chance, yet still kept going. How much money does one man need anyhow? How many cars can one buy? How many vacations can one take? I wonder how much of this was for the thrill versus the monetary reward.

And I bet the criminally negligent point of sale company that made it possible for this guy to steal a million+ credit card numbers faced no consequences whatsoever.

I used to eat at the Broadway Grill in the late 1990s. While the card thing may have been a burden to them, that place was dying for years by that point. As the owner, Matt Walsh, noted after the incident, they took steps to secure their systems and had no decline in use or patronage. The food just turned to shit since the good days of the mid to late 1990s.

Funny how the secret service is more known for vip protection than money matters these days when they were created initially to deal with counterfeitting.

Kira deep dives are like ordering double dessert.

Who would’ve thought that it all fell apart because of a hacker’s simple and predictable password. Truly the result of insane hubris and cockiness

Holy crap, the man lived a life worthy of a movie. I hope he never gets one, though. We already have people idolizing the scammer from The Wolf of Wall Street. Last thing we need is another movie for dumbasses to misunderstand.

Well I do believe what comes around goes around. This man went through trauma and heartbreak in his younger years, and instead of using his skills to improve others' lives, he inflicted that same trauma and pain on to others. It's unfortunate what happened to him, but when you build your life up quickly and lavishly with sand, don't be surprised when it all comes crumbling down.

Always love your channel. Doesn't matter what the subject is, you're able to make it entertaining. It's clear that you put in true time and effort and that this is something you care about. Cheers sir

Dude, I love this video essay documentary style videos! Please more.

The irony of the phrase "trusted stolen credit card vendor" is like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife.

I am really liking these computer security videos I hope you keep doing them

You told this history so interestingly well! Great work leaving his father's connections to the last moment, that was such a mind blowing part!

Remember kids: for every Roman (successful hackers who made a mistake), there are 10 who haven’t made a single mistake still making millions that we’ve never heard of

i almost didnt click on this cuz you changed your pfp and I didnt notice it was you. Then I saw it again in my notifs and realized it was you.

Really glad I found your channel. Your videos are always really well researched and presented and the content is always interesting.

OF COURSE his father was an MP.

11:06 - Schlotzsky's Deli has 300+ locations. They're not even remotely a "mom and pop" operation...

Would love to see Kira start interviewing the subjects of his videos as part of these documentaries.

Geoff Johns a writer for DC comics created Larfleeze the orange lantern, and he nailed the greed and avarice persona perfectly, powerful has a hoard of loot but it's not enough it's never enough, acquiring the things becomes more important than whatever good they would do you for people like this

I knew a guy long time ago that bought numbers, used cvs gift cards to wipe. Write new numbers and give the cards to strippers. They’d go out buy 1! Item with each card. The bank will cover a sus charge. Usually a laptop or a bag and he’d sit in the lobby of random hotels and the hoes would stroll in with loot. Their payment was a card. Then he’d sell everything, mfer never wore the same clothes twice. He was way ahead of everyone. I always think about that dude

Lmao she "loves" him when he's healthy and wealthy, but the moment he gets injured she divorces him, takes half his stuff and his kid, and vanishes. Classic

Man, your videos are some of the most interesting on the whole platform IMO. Love the channel!

Just stumbled over your channel and wow, I can’t stop watching! Great fascinating content, thank you!

Imagine being foiled by not changing your password. It's like slipping on a banana peel.

the businesses storing customer card info in plaintext should be prosecuted aswell

Sounds like an assasination from the 3 letters. I say this because they would have no way to extradite him from Russia. Either that or karma, but this seems too much of a coincidence to be karma.

These guys are too friendly for their own good. I had a credit card fraudster invite me to join his criminal enterprise after he stole my card. I declined, of course.

Heavy price to pay for childish OPSEC. Just like pompompourin and Ross Ulbricht. Which is reassuring really. Most 'normal' criminals are caught because they are not the sharpest knives in the drawer, now we are being constantly reminded that the same is often true for cyber criminals.

jokes on you, I've never been interesting enough to become the target of a hack

Pretty hilarious that his wife divorced him because she "did not want to care for vegetable." Guess the scammer couldnt recognize a fellow scammer

Kira i love the deep dives but please post some sources that you use! Kinda like Slightly/barely sociable do, it would make these much more interactive! Been a fan for a while now and i love the direction you are taking this. Hope all is well mate.

Content quality is amazing as usual, still unsure why Kira isn't so popular

20:10 So in other words, he got caught because he couldn’t keep his ochko shut.

Another banger Ash, great story. I couldn’t help thinking though - this would make an amazing movie

Brilliant documentary... well done man!

"Unless, of course, they already have"... Kira cyber criminal arch confirmed?

Kira: “He was flown to Washington State” Airplane: *Lands in Washington DC* 😂

love to have you back with banger content

I love your content. Slowly listening to every video you’ve produced

Thought this would be about the guy being held in prison indefinitely for forgetting a password

Washington state shows plane going to Washington DC... so close 😛

We have Kickstarter MMOs to thank for making Kira find his real passion - investingating stammers xD

Hollywood hackers: Have like 15 screens, and when they hack, they furiously type for a couple of minutes to magically break seven firewalls.

Another epic video, bro. Keep them coming😊

B is V in Russian. So it's not Bulba, it's Vulv4 :)

Somehow i liked the older channel icon more... but it's just an icon... thx for the vid as always

His password is basically "butthole123", jesus mate

It saddens me when Kira starts a video without saying hello friendos

IMO someone from his inner circle was paid off by a competitor to snitch on his location to the feds.

19:20 I'm pretty sure he means Washington DC

Well, another rule would be "don't flaunt your wealth if its all stolen wealth"

He had MILLIONS. Why not pull out and disappear to live the good life? No. Roman didn't care about the money. He was addicted to the thrill. He loved having control over others and sticking it to the feds, grew arrogant, and paid the price.

"Scholtzky's Deli in Idaho" is the equivalent of saying "Dairy Queen in Texas" ;-)

The Secret Service is part of the Department of Treasury. This is why they were the ones looking into this.

brilliant as always

What ruined his life was the fact that he is a crook. If he wasn't a crook then his life wouldn't have been ruined.

Worth noting, according to the letter which keeps scrolling, his wife abandonned him (and flew to the US) once the risk of him becoming a vegetable became aparrent.

Criminal enterprises got better customer support than greedy corporations…

I was today years old when I learned that credit card thieves would have tech support, and now I'm filled with so many questions completely irrelevant to my life. Does it pay more to be black market tech support? How would that go on a resume? Is the first suggestion still always try to turn it on and off again?...

If he negotiated, he would likely have been recruited into a service for anti hacking some time down the line... life would be controlled but he would've been comfortable.

As past employee of a big chain store, it's EXTREMELY noticeable when people come in with two phones and beeline for the giftcards. They usually try to buy around 100 dollars per purchase so the card dosent get flagged. They'll grab 50 visa giftcards and sit at self checkout. I brought it to the attention of my supervisor and they said there wasn't anything we can do and I shouldn't step in. So i took it to our loss-prevention officer and she implemented a policy for employees. We had to tell them they had to put it all on one purchase or leave. It didn't completely solve the problem but it helped so much. It's everyone's responsibility to call out weird/strange behavior like this! Store employees need to pay extra attention to protect the consumers from fraud/scams.

Imagine if he had just switched side, he would probably be owning a cybersecurity firm doing consultancy for businesses.

bro this is why I would never be a bad guy lol. If ppl 10x smarter than me can get caught at the end what’s the point you ask? there’s no point lol

19:54 this would be the perfect time to go “and this is why he shouldve used our sponsor (*insert password managing sponsor)”

_In the game of _*_Cat and Mouse_*_ the _*_Mice_*_ will _*_ALWAYS_*_ win - but the _*_Cats_*_ will be extremely well fed_ ...

The primary responsibility of the Secret Service is money protection first, not the other way around. Presidential protection came much later.

Keep up the awesome work man. Love your content. Wish I could do this for a little and was smart enough with systems haha

Great video, thank you. About "ochko". Yes, in slang it means "a-hole". But it also means 21, as in the card game blackjack, a lucky number to get. Hope, it helps.

Arrogance and greed is what makes the scheme vulnerable to feds

Late to the party but I still LOVE these investigative videos. I always discover something interesting.

Judge went on like it was personal😂

Secret service is like we know exactly who he is and we will get him in a couple years

hell of a video, love all your work man

Not gonna lie that last line sounded like an admission! LOL

Absolute banger of a video.

I remember this hack of the Broadway Grill! Crazy!

Carding is exactly as innocent and guilty as the name implies lol

I used to eat at that Schlotsky’s in Boise and I am pretty sure I have met the dude. Neat and sketchy.

That's a REALLY, REALLY sad story When I heard about the Moroccan bomb, I was yelling "DUDE, STOP IT. DUDE, STOP IT!"

How ironic that his life fell apart while casually getting lunch. The same treatment he gave his victims.

He should have spent more time bowling with his cousin.

That slight chuckle at 20:29 summed up this whole video. This was the dumbest smart guy I've ever heard of 😂

Love the documentaries

I’m just saying the fact that the dude ended up involved in a terrorist attack makes me think that attack may have been less terroristy and more of another criminal sect attacking another criminal.

Bro was a mysterious genius hacker man and fr had 123 in his password 💀 why is it that all cyber criminals have such awful OPSEC lmao

Really informative and entertaining video!

For a moment I thought this was about hackers ruining someone's life because he didn't change his password not that some hacker used 123 as his password XD

6:13 Actually, it's not that "ncux" is pronounced "psich," but that it resembles the Russian letters in the word "псих" which is pronounced "psich." Russians would pronounce the latin letters "ncux" same as an English speaking person.

He could have just stop and made out with all his cash but nooooooo he had to keep on going.

Thx for the great content

Not important, but people from there pronounce it Mc”Lane” even though it’s spelt McLean

6:10 ncux is not pronounced psxik in russian. псих where п is p, not n. c is s. и is like i. x is like h. that’s p-s-i-k. there is no “n” involved.

20:27 I chucked at how Kira even laughed at the criminal's lazy move.

Dope should have gone white hat - he could have made tons of money as a security consultant, sold his services to police agencies, helped corporations learn how to protect themselves, etc.

20:40 Tony robbins's the Tony Robbins of fraud 😂

Is this the same David Dunn that survived a train derailment?

Brilliantly told 👏

27 years for 170m$ in damages is way to lenient.