Joshua Samuel Aaron, one of five co-conspirators who hacked into the highly secure servers of the nation's largest financial institutions and controlled a small credit union to conceal an illegal Bitcoin operation that was generating $30 million a month in ACH payments, was arrested Wednesday at JFK International Airport.
Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for New York's Southern District in Manhattan, said Aaron is expected to appear before a U.S. District Court Judge Thursday morning.
Aaron, 32, an American citizen, had been living in Moscow, Russia. Authorities there took him into custody and flew him back to the U.S.
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