Former Ubiquiti Employee Poses as Anonymous Hacker, Attempts $2 Million Crypto Extortion
A former Ubiquiti employee posed as an anonymous hacker while working for the company and tried to extort $2 million in crypto assets. Nickolas Sharp was arrested in December 2021 and sentenced to six years in prison at the conclusion of the investigation. According to i ...
UK Citizen Pleads Guilty to Hacking Celebrity Accounts for Bitcoin Fraud
U.K. citizen pleaded guilty to large-scale hacking of celebrity accounts in social networks for bitcoin fraud. Joseph James O'Connor is recognized as one of the hackers who hacked the Twitter accounts of several celebrities in 2020 including American star Kim Kardashian, ...
Bankruptcy Trustee Investigated for Cryptocurrency Bribery in Tatarstan
Emil Khalimov, a bankruptcy trustee from Tatarstan, is under criminal investigation for extorting a bribe, part of which he received in cryptocurrencies. Khalimov extorted a bribe of 2 million rubles from the founder of one of the companies where he was in bankruptcy procee ...