For three years, a group of five men managed to hack into the highly secure servers of some of the world's largest financial institutions, run an illicit payment processing scheme, and, for a shorter time period, take over a credit union that was generating $30 million a month in ACH payments.

So how did they fly under the radar for so long?

Federal prosecutors and federal regulators are staying mum on the topic due to criminal indictments against Yuri Lebedev, Anthony R. Murgio, Gery Shalon, Joshua Samuel Aaron and Ziv Orenstein, who operated a sprawling criminal enterprise that raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit proceeds, according to recently released court documents.

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