‘Bitcoin Baron’ Hacker Arrested By Police in Arizona
The notorious “Bitcoin Baron” hacker has been remanded in custody in Arizona following a six-month police investigation. The serial DDoS attacker, whose real name is Randall Charles Tucker, has openly written and gone on record about his favored practice of taking down websites of government authorities he considers to have committed injustices. The episode which ultimately led to his arrest, Open Ledger reports, involved a YouTube video and an email sent to Arizona local authorities threatening to compromise their systems following the release of a convicted felon who later committed....
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Israeli police have arrested eight suspects in connection with a cryptocurrency fraud scheme after raiding their homes and seizing evidence. One of the suspects is Moshe Hogeg, a well-known owner of the premier soccer team Beitar Jerusalem Football Club.
8 People Arrested in Crypto Fraud Scheme in Israel
Israeli police arrested eight suspects Thursday allegedly stealing tens of millions of shekels in a cryptocurrency fraud scheme.
The arrests were made after officers from the police’s Lahav 433 anti-corruption unit raided the suspects’ homes and offices.....
A suburban Chicago Police Department recently paid a $500 worth Bitcoin ransom to retrieve their malware-hit data from an unidentified hacker. Somewhere in January, Midlothian police reported to have been attacked by cryptoware - a trojan that encrypts data of the target's computer and seeks ransom for its retrieval from online criminals. Reportedly, the hacker in this case had encrypted specific confidential files on the police's computer, though he never got to access them. According to Calvin Harder Jr., a local IT expert at Midlothian, someone from the police department accidentally....