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list of friends and accomplices still hacking back home. The bureau realized there were dozens of profit-oriented intruders and fraud artists from Eastern Europe already reaching their tentacles into Western computers.

In the years to come, the number would grow to thousands. Ivanov and Gorshkov were Magellan and Columbus: Their arrival in America instantly redrew the global cybercrime map for the FBI and placed Eastern Europe indisputably at its center.