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Two Israelis and one U.S. citizen have been charged with stealing the contact information of more than 100 million customers of U.S. financial institutions to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal profits, authorities announced Nov. 10.

Gery Shalon, Ziv Orenstein and Joshua Samuel Aaron were charged in a 23-count indictment with alleged crimes against at least nine financial services companies and media outlets, and which involved online casinos, payment processing for criminals and an illegal bitcoin exchange.

Shalon, 31, and Orenstein, 40, are Israeli nationals who were arrested in July, while Aaron, 31, is a U.S. citizen who has lived in Moscow and Tel Aviv but is currently at large, authorities have said. A fourth man, from Florida, was also arrested in July.

The 2014 theft of data of more than 83 million customers of JPMorgan Chase & Co. was described by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara as “the single largest theft of customer data from a U.S. financial institution ever.” Authorities said Shalon and Aaron executed that hacking using a computer server in Egypt that they had rented under an alias that Shalon often used.

E*Trade Financial, Scottrade and News Corp’s Dow Jones unit, which publishes the Wall Street Journal, were also targeted, a law enforcement source said. — j. wire reports