New indictments against Affactive online casino, Coin.mx Bitcoin operators

More light has been shed on this summer’s arrests of individuals tied to the Affactive and Revenuejet online gambling groups.

On Tuesday, US Attorney General Loretta Lynch and US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara released superseding indictments charging Gery Shalon, Joshua Samuel Aaron and Ziv Orenstein with hacking JPMorgan Chase & Co, as well as similar hacks on other major financial companies and media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal.

The accused face a litany of charges including hacking, wire fraud, securities fraud, identification document fraud (involving over 30 bogus passports), operating an illegal gambling business, violating the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA), aggravated identity theft, operating an unlicensed money transmitting business, money laundering and conspiracy.

Shalon and Orenstein, both Israel citizens, were arrested in Israel in July and are awaiting extradition to the US. Aaron, a US citizen, remains at large.