Overview

• Three men aged 44, 32 and 27 were arrested in Romania on June 24 and have been extradited to Germany where they remain in pretrial detention.
• Authorities seized numerous electronic devices during coordinated raids in Sibiu, Râmnicu Vâlcea and Drăgășani that are now undergoing forensic analysis.
• The probe is led by Kriminalpolizei Nürnberg’s Cybercrime unit and Zentralstelle Cybercrime Bayern in collaboration with Romanian DIICOT under a Eurojust JIT.
• Investigators have linked more than 400 compromised merchant accounts to the scam, which recorded over €100 million in orders and about €300,000 in realized payments so far.
• Officials warn that forensic findings may reveal further accomplices and expand the list of affected buyers and retailers.