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The United States Treasury Department announced further sanctions against three North Korean state-sponsored hacker groups, responsible for “North Korea’s malicious cyber activity on critical infrastructure.”Continue to enforce existing U.S. and U.N. sanctions against North KoreaOn Sept. 13, the U.S. Department of Treasury announced sanctions against North Korean hacking groups,
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Paige Thompson, suspect of the Capital One hacking, was charged with the crime of hacking cloud-computing servers and stealing the data of the company to mine cryptocurrency. She now faces up to 25 years in prison for wire fraud, computer fraud and abuse.Former software engineer at Amazon, Paige was arrested
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The individual accused of perpetrating a massive-scale hack of credit card issuer Capital One also allegedly hacked cloud customers’ servers to mine cryptocurrency for herself. Court filings published on Aug. 28 reveal that Paige A. Thompson has been indicted on charges of both perpetrating the Capital One breach and of
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One Phishing crime was reported lately by the UK’s Metropolitan Police where a hacker was ordered to pay back the 1-million-pound worth of Bitcoin(BTC)trade to victims. The judge told the accused that he would face four more years in jail if he refused to comply.The UK’s Southwark Crown Court ordered
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Another day, another cryptocurrency theft. | Source: ShutterstockBy CCN Markets: 7News Sydney reports that Katherine Nguyen is the first-ever Australian resident to plead guilty for cryptocurrency fraud after stealing 100,000 XRP.In 2018, twenty-four-year-old Nguyen hijacked the email account of an elderly man of the same surname for two days
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Australian citizen Katherine Nguyen has pleaded guilty to stealing $450,000 in XRP — over 100,000 tokens — in January 2018.Local news channel 7News Sydney reported the latest about the case on Aug. 23. According to the report, Nguyen hacked into the email account of a man with the same
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Norfolk Constabulary (local police) in the U.K. has recently announced that a 19-year-old man was sent to twenty months in prison and was also required to pay back more than £400,000 by Norwich Crown Court for hacking services that he had provided in exchange for crypto payments.According to Norfolk Police,
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Cryptocurrency exchange Binance will compensate the white hat hacker who compromised Binance Jersey’s Internet domain name and Twitter account.Binance Jersey Twitter and domain compromisedIn a post published on Aug. 16, crypto exchange Binance Jersey announced that a white hat hacker was able to gain access to the @BinanceJE Twitter
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