The NYPD is on alert over a sick COVID-19 blackmail scheme where unsuspecting people are targeted online by scammers who threaten to infect their families with Capital One data breachand where user credentials from the site were posted on the … Continued
A Russian rapper living in Florida is charged with working for an organized crime group known as QQAAZZ, which allegedly provided money laundering services for cybercriminals stealing from American businesses. Maksim Boiko, 29, was in the United States for two … Continued
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A former computer hacker who styles himself as a corruption-buster has been charged with flouting U.S. law to give North Korea advice on evading American sanctions by using cryptocurrency. Virgil Griffith, 36, was once dubbed an internet man of mystery … Continued
A federal district court in Illinois recently dismissed the US government’s case against Jitesh Thakkar, a computer programmer who was accused of writing code that someone else used to commit a crime. But programmers at large are hardly off the … Continued
Sure, it’s fun to talk about how you’re vain because you were born in the year of the dragon, or how your stubborn because you’re a Taurus, but maybe you’re also clumsy because you were born on the day of … Continued
TOKYO Arresting Developments Karpeles was first arrested on Aug. 1, 2015, by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police, who believed he must be the bitcoin thief and would crack under interrogation. He did not. They arrested him two more times. He was … Continued
A bookseller has been convicted of stealing a first edition of a JK Rowling novel. It is a reminder of the inflated prices her works can command News that Italian bookseller Rudolf Schnegger has been found guilty of stealing a … Continued
An Oregon man who once begged the government to arrest him for giving Bitcoin to anarchist, and Bitcoin enthusiast who drew national attention in April 2015 with his protest of then-president Barack Obamas directive as forbidding any financial support to … Continued
ROMEIt is not exactly hard to pinpoint why it is so difficult to believe Chloe Ayling, a 20-year-old British glamor model who is in jail in the United Kingdom, fighting extradition to Italy. But despite the facts of the case … Continued