“These incidents show what happens when it takes too long for cybercriminals to get arrested,” Nixon said. “If governments fail to prioritize this source of threat, violence originating from the Internet will affect regular people.”
Too long? It took a year to arrest this guy. That does not seem like too long. In the 80s and 90s it took years, even decades, to uncover computer and wire fraud. Fraudsters would have careers lasting many years. It used to take forever to close fraud cases