Travel firms ordered by feds to spy on Russian hacker

The U.S. government in 2015 had issued orders to the Sabre and Travelport travel firms in the U.S. and the U.K., respectively, to monitor and provide information on Russian hacker Aleksei Burkov, who was then suspected to be involved in the theft of stolen credit cards worth $20 million on his Cardplanet website.

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