Busted: Florida Resident Found Guilty in Series of Crypto-Related Home Invasions
In a notable legal development involving crypto, Remy St. Felix, a 24-year-old from West Palm Beach, Florida, was recently convicted by a federal jury in Greensboro, North Carolina, for orchestrating a series of violent home invasions targeting crypto owners in states, including North Carolina, Florida, Texas, and New York. This case sheds light on a […]
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A recent guilty plea in a high-profile hacking case has drawn attention to vulnerabilities in online account security and the ripple effects they can have on cryptocurrency markets. Eric Council, a 25-year-old from Athens, Georgia, has pleaded guilty in the United States federal court to charges related to the hacking of the US Securities and […]
The 34-year old convict was reportedly not able to make use of the stolen mining equipment due to a “lack of relevant knowledge.” Authorities from Russia’s Zavolzhsky district have found a 34-year-old local man guilty of stealing cryptocurrency mining equipment worth more than 1.6 million rubles (nearly $22,000).According to the report shared by the Prosecutor's Office of the Yaroslavl Region, the state prosecutor confirmed that the Yaroslavl resident was found entering a friend’s garage unlawfully back in Feb. 2021 and stealing their mining equipment that was intended to be used for....
An IT specialist working for a medical institution in Russia’s Altai Republic has been detained for illegally mining cryptocurrency at the premises of a Covid-19 hospital. The man minted digital currencies using stolen electricity for almost a year before law enforcement busted his crypto farm.
Altai Resident Apprehended for Running Underground Crypto Mining Operation
An employee of the republican hospital in Gorno-Altaisk, the capital town of the Altai Republic in southern Siberia, has been arrested for setting up a crypto farm at a medical facility. He had been running....