A grand jury has indicted 17 people and a corporation on charges of identity theft, worldwide trafficking in stolen credit card numbers and other cybercrimes.

The defendants trafficked in more than 95,000 stolen credit card numbers and caused more than $4 million in credit card fraud. The group ran Internet ads saying they had credit card numbers and other identifying information to sell to crooks.

Two of the defendants are a married couple, Vadim Vassilenko, 40, and Yelena Barysheva, 42, who pleaded guilty in September 2006 to falsifying business records and violating New York banking law by running an unlicensed check cashing and money transfer business. Vassilenko was sentenced to two to six years in prison, and Barysheva, born in Russia, was sentenced to one to three years.

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