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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Microsoft Opens Up Office 365 Datacenters in the UK

Microsoft is now offering customers in the United Kingdom the ability to store their Office 365 data on servers in two new datacenters located within the European country. Storing company data in the country of origin can have significant impact on a… Continue reading Microsoft Opens Up Office 365 Datacenters in the UK