A 32-year-old American formerly living in Moscow but wanted in the United States in connection with a massive theft of customer data from J.P. Morgan Chase and Dow Jones has been arrested, officials said Thursday. Joshua Aaron was arrested Wednesday at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York and is scheduled to appear before a US judge on Thursday.
He is accused of orchestrating major computer hacking crimes against US financial institutions, brokerage firms and financial news publishers, including the largest theft of customer data from a US financial institution. Aaron was one of four suspects indicted in November 2015 in the scheme that compromised data from millions of customers of J.P. Morgan Chase and other firms. The bank has said the hack compromised data on 76 million household customers and seven million businesses, including their names, email addresses and telephone numbers - the largest theft of data from a US financial institution.
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