.Two Russians performing attend united state penitentiaries for personal computer hacking and also multi-million buck charge card theft have been actually featured in a headline-grabbing prisoner swap take care of Moscow.The two men-- Vladislav Klyushin and Roman Seleznev-- were actually sentenced to a consolidated 36 years behind bars for hacking computer networks, expert investing and financial crimes. They were actually discharged Thursday as portion of a complicated captive swap in between the U.S., Russia, Germany and also numerous Western countries.The captive swap featured the go back to the USA of journalist Evan Gershkovich and also past marine Paul Whelan.Klyushin, a rich entrepreneur along with known strings to the Kremlin, was actually offering 9 years for his role in a virtually $one hundred thousand stock exchange dishonesty plan that count on secret earnings info taken by means of the hacking of USA computer networks.The U.S. Compensation Department mentioned Klyushin made those earnings off of business that were actually based upon personal business intel taken coming from USA computer networks.Seleznev was actually sentenced in 2017 to 27 years in prison for hacking in to point-of-sale (PoS) personal computers and also swiping visa or mastercard amounts..He was actually founded guilty in August 2016 of 38 matters related to his program to hack PoS endpoints: 10 counts of wire fraud, eight matters of intentional damage to a safeguarded personal computer, nine matters of securing relevant information coming from a protected pc, 9 counts of property of 15 or even more unwarranted access tools as well as 2 counts of complicated identity burglary..Seleznev is the boy of Russian politician Valery Seleznev, that accused the US of kidnapping when the hacker was actually jailed in the Maldives in 2014. The laptop Seleznev invited his imprisonment when apprehended consisted of over 1.7 thousand swiped bank card amounts (at first pointed out to become 2.1 thousand), in addition to additional proof linking the Russian to the hosting servers, email profiles and monetary purchases involved in the scheme.Advertisement. Scroll to carry on analysis.Associated: Russian With Kremlin Ties Gets 9 Years in Prison for Hacking, Expert Trading.Associated: United States Jury Convicts Russian MP's Boy for Hacking Program.Related: Russian Accused of Hacking 'May Pass Away in US Jail': Dad.