US school employee charged for mining crypto with stolen electricity

A former facilities worker in the US state of Massachusetts is accused of stealing nearly $18,000 in electricity to power his crypto mining operation in a school's crawl space.

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US SEC charges Mango Markets exploiter for stealing $116m

Avraham Eisenberg has been charged by SEC for executing a scheme that manipulated the price of MNGO, a governance token on the Mango Markets trading platform.

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Ohio Man Who Stole 713 Bitcoins from US Authorities is Set to Plead Guilty of Theft

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SushiSwap's new head chef 'in a soup,' here's what happened

Following charges of fraud, Jared Grey, the recently appointed head chef at SushiSwap, is currently on the defensive side. The new boss of Sushi DAO, Grey, has been charged with stealing money fromThe post SushiSwap's new head chef 'in a soup,' here's what happened appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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$44M Ponzi scheme charged with stealing $18M in funds

Two individuals and a company have been charged with operating an illegal community pool and fraudulently soliciting $44 million via an “income fund investing in digital assets. ” The defendants are Sam Ikkurty, Ravishankar Avadhanam, and Jafia LLC, with a status hearing scheduled for May 25, 2022.

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Instagram Influencer Charged for Allegedly Stealing Millions of Dollars in Bitcoin From Followers

A popular Instagram personality has been charged in the U. S. , accused of stealing bitcoins worth millions of dollars from his followers. He allegedly convinced the “victims to sell him their bitcoin at attractive, but inflated, values” but he never wired them the money for the coins sent to him.

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North Korean Hackers Charged with Stealing Over $1.3 Billion in Cryptocurrencies and Cash

The U.S. government has charged North Korean programmers with stealing $1.3 billion in crypto and cash

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Australian Hacker Who Stole Over 100,000 XRP Sentenced to 2 Years Behind Bars

Kathryn Nguyen, a 25-year-old Sydney female has been charged with stealing 100,000 XRP in January 2018 and has been sentenced to 2 years and 3 months in prison. Nguyen, together with an associate, hacked a 56-year-old person’s cryptocurrency account and proceeded to swap the two-factor authentication into her phone. After the swap was completed, the […]

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New York Man Charged With Trafficking Credit Card Info, Using Bitcoin to Launder Proceeds

Vitalii Antonenko, 28, has been indicted for allegedly stealing and selling reams of payment card data, the proceeds of which he laundered in bitcoin.

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Bitcoin Hacking Suspects Arrested in Japan, Accused of Stealing 78 Mln Yen in BTC from CoinExchange

In Tokyo, two suspects have been taken in custody, charged with stealing 78 mln yen from the CoinExchange firm in 2018, which shut down permanently last year

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Singapore Man Faces 34 Years in Prison for Illegal Crypto Mining

A 29-year-old man from Singapore faces 34 years in prison after allegedly stealing Amazon AWS and Google Cloud computing power and services to mine crypto. Stole Victims’ Information to Mine Crypto Ho Jun Jia also known as Matthew Ho was taken into the custody of the Singapore Police Force on September 26 after being charged under a 14-count indictment.

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Developer who started a church to worship AI indicted for stealing AI

Anthony Levandowski, a former employee at Google sister company Waymo, today was charged with 33 counts of theft and attempted theft of trade secrets after he allegedly stole more than 14,000 sensitive documents that eventually ended up in Uber‘s clutches.

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Canadian Citizens Charged by the US Government for Stealing Over 23 Bitcoin from Oregon Women

US watchdogs have got hold of two Canadians for a betrayal of $233,220 worth BTC with a fake HitBTC twitter account. Scammers Pretended to be Customer Service Reps of HitBTC Two citizens of surrey, a city of British Colombia, ostensibly stole 23.

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Bitcoin (BTC) Price Drops 7% Due to Weak Technicals, Intensifying Sell Pressure

Bitcoin (BTC) is down 7. 7 percent from last week’s close. Steven Mnuchin, the U. S. Secretary of Treasury, is calling for unity amongst regulators. The U. S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York has charged Jon Barry Thompson of Volantis Escrow Platform LLC, for lying and stealing $7 million from clients.

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China Throws Bitcoin-Mining Grandma in Jail for Electricity Theft

By CCN: Chinese authorities sentenced a 61-year-old grandmother to four months in jail for stealing electricity while mining bitcoin. Qiuping Tang was also fined 10,000 yuan (about $1,500) for electricity theft.

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Six hackers charged over SIM swapping attacks

Six individuals from a hacking group known as ‘The Community’ have been charged with stealing over $2.4 million in cryptocurrency using the SIM swapping method. What is SIM swapping and how can you prevent it?

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$2.4 Million Crypto Thieves Bribed Carrier Employees in SIM Hijacking Heist

By CCN: SIM hijacking has proven to be yet another lucrative way to steal crypto with millions of dollar now reported to have been stolen over the years with the amount that has gone unreported possibly eclipsing that.

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$9 Million Dash Theft Sees Israeli National Own 1% of Entire Cryptocurrency

According to Israeli sources, a man named Afek Zard is charged with stealing around 75,000 Dash from his friend Alexei Yaromenko after learning about cryptocurrency from Yaromenko. Reportedly, Yaromenko trusted Zard alone in his apartment in Eilat, a city at the southern edge of Israel near the Jordanian and Egyptian borders.

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New York Fraudster Faces 20 Year Sentence for Facebook Crypto Scam

New York resident Patrick McDonnell AKA “Jason Flack” was arrested and charged with nine counts of wire fraud in a Brooklyn court on Tuesday. McDonnell allegedly convinced others to “invest” in cryptocurrency through Facebook and Twitter, stealing the money for his own use and providing false balance statements in return.

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Japan: 18 Year Old Charged for Stealing $100,000 in MonaCoin in Country’s First Crypto Theft Case

Japanese authorities in the city of Utsunomiya have charged an 18-year-old for stealing crypto from Monappy, a digital wallet service for MonaCoin. The unnamed teenager was reportedly referred to prosecutors in what is the country’s first case of charges being brought against a cryptocurrency hacker.

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Japanese Police Arrests 18-Year Old Hacker for Stealing $134,000 in Monacoin

Local prosecutors in Japan have charged an 18-year old male with cryptocurrency theft. Per a report published in a local news outlet, the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) of Japan are accusing the young adult of stealing 15 million Yen ($134,310) worth of stealing MonaCoin (MONA)—a Litecoin hard fork.

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Hacker Gets 10 Years in First SIM-Swapping Sentencing in the U.S.

According to a recent report, Joel Ortiz, the 20-year-old student from Boston who was indicted by prosecutors in Santa Clara, California, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison in what is believed to be the very first SIM swapping conviction in the United States.

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AriseBank CEO Charged in $4 Million Alleged ICO Scam

Jared Rice Sr. , CEO of the Dallas-based bank AriseBank, was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Wednesday, November 28, 2018, and charged with six counts of securities fraud and wire fraud.

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$5M Crypto Theft Perpetrators Get Charged by Bulgarian Prosecutors

Following an investigation launched five months ago, an organized group of hackers has been arrested for allegedly stealing $5 million worth of cryptocurrencies.

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Australian Woman Steals $450,000 Worth of Ripple [XRP]

A 23-year-old Australian woman was charged with stealing $450,000 worth of Ripple (XRP). According to Business Insider Australia’s article published on October 25, 2018, the stolen Ripple is considered one of Australia’s largest cryptocurrency thefts.

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Iceland’s ‘Big Bitcoin Heist’: Suspects Charged With Over $2M in Stolen Mining Rigs

Police in Iceland charged seven individuals for conspiracy, burglary, and theft for stealing from the region’s mining facilities. Iceland prosecutors are charging the suspects with over $871,000 in stolen goods, but the group of individuals are also being sued for $1.

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First Cryptocurrency SIM Jacking Case Brought In California

In California, the first case has been brought against an alleged SIM hijacker charged with stealing over $5 million worth of cryptocurrency with the help of accomplices.

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