Editing Vladimir Levin (hacker) (section)

== The revelation a decade later ==

In 2005, an alleged member of the former [[Saint Petersburg|St. Petersburg]] hacker group, claiming to be one of the original Citibank penetrators, published a memorandum under the name ArkanoiD on the popular Provider.net.ru website dedicated to the telecom market. According to him, Levin was not actually a scientist (mathematician, biologist, or the like) but a kind of ordinary [[system administrator]] who managed to get hands on the ready data about how to penetrate Citibank machines and then exploit them.<ref>{{cite web |language=ru |url=http://www.providernet.ru/article.37.php |title=Дело Левина: недостающее звено |trans-title=Levin's Case, the Missing Chain |publisher=Provider.net.ru |website=Независимый обзор провайдеров|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110207032503/http://www.providernet.ru/article.37.php |archive-date=February 7, 2011 |access-date=November 11, 2005 |first1=Alex A.|last1=Smirnoff}}</ref>

ArkanoiD emphasized that all the communications were carried over [[X.25]] network, and the [[Internet]] was not involved. ArkanoiD's group in 1994 found out Citibank systems were unprotected, and they spent several weeks examining the structure of the bank's USA-based networks remotely. Members of the group played around with systems' tools (e.g. were installing and running games) and were unnoticed by the bank's staff. Penetrators did not plan to conduct a robbery for their personal safety and stopped their activities at some point. One of them later handed over the crucial access data to Levin (reportedly for the stated $100).