Behind Giant Credit Card Hack

Vladimir Drinkman says he met Dmitriy Smilianets online playing Counter-Strike, a shooter game in which cyber-combatants assume the roles of either terrorists or counter-terrorists: bad guys or good guys.

More than a decade later, the two young Russians are both behind bars — Drinkman in the Netherlands, Smilianets in New Jersey — charged with being among the most prolific of online bad guys in the biggest data-breach prosecution in U.S. history.