Court squeezes $1 million back from convicted phisher
Prolific phishing scammer Grant West has been sentenced to 10 years, 8 months, and reimbursement for victims. Continue reading Court squeezes $1 million back from convicted phisher
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London police seize over $667,000 in bitcoin from convicted hacker
London Metropolitan Police seized more than £500,000 ($667,000) in bitcoin from a hacker convicted of phishing attacks against 100 global companies and possessing stolen financial and personal data from 78 million individuals. Grant West, 26, was sentenced to 10 years and eight months in prison on Friday in London. West’s two-and-a-half-year-long scheme was to phish a wide range of targets, steal sensitive data and then sell the information on dark web markets. More than 47,000 such sales of stolen data were charged against him in court. Police shared the following screenshot of a vastly successful West phishing email: There is still £1.6 million worth of stolen cryptocurrency that remains unaccounted for that the sentencing judge described as “secreted away.” West was known online as Courvoisier, after the popular French cognac. He was a prominent vendor on the dark web market AlphaBay, which was the largest and most profitable of such sites until international police […]
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The Man on the Train: Caught with his phishing loot
How does it end for phishing attackers who get caught? In a case that’s been working its way through the British courts since last September, the unusual answer is in the first-class carriage of a train travelling between Wales and London. Continue reading The Man on the Train: Caught with his phishing loot