A Brooklyn man hacked into dozens of Wegmans customer accounts and ran up a $9,000 tab before getting nabbed, federal prosecutors said this week.
Maurice Sheftall, 24, pleaded guilty to placing 25 online orders with the popular supermarket chain using the accounts of more than 50 patrons over a seven-month period in 2021, the US Attorney’s Office for the Western District of New York said Monday.
Sheftall stole the customers’ login information and then locked them out of their accounts.
He then used their saved credit card information to rack up orders totaling $9,297.25, with the groceries delivered to himself and his pals, prosecutors said.
He ran the scam from Jan. 22, 2021 to July 25, 2021, the feds said.
US District Judge Charles Siragusa sentenced Sheftall to three years of probation and ordered him to pay more than $41,000 in restitution, prosecutors said.
Maurice Sheftall hacked into Wegmans’ customer accounts online and placed two dozen grocery orders for himself and his pals, prosecutors said. Matthew McDermott for NY Post
Sheftall stole the customers’ login information and then locked them out of their accounts, feds said. Matthew McDermott for NY PostThe amount includes approximately $15,000 in legal fees incurred by the Rochester-based grocery chain and $16,000 for dark web monitoring to determine how Sheftall was able to get access to the customer accounts, Syracuse.com reported.
Also included in the total is reimbursement to customers for the stolen funds and about $1,000 for employee time to respond to the online theft, the outlet said.
