US Navy Couple Charged With Selling 9,000 Stolen Identities for Bitcoin
Prosecutors allege the pair used their positions in the U.S. Navy to steal and sell personal information of 9,000 people.
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Bitcoin has been identified by the US Navy as a force for supreme evil, it has emerged. A Broad Agency Announcement project for Navy Engineering Logistics Office of the Department of the Navy is currently being bid for by interested parties. Among the parts of the project appear these two sections: “R3861 Counter Threat Finance” and “R3830 Methods and Means to Systematically Discern and Display ‘Precursors of Instability’ In the Dark Web.” Quite a mouthful, but the message is serious, for among the ‘keywords’ mentioned in the brief is “Bitcoin.”
A New Jersey police officer has been arrested and charged with receiving stolen property after allegedly selling stolen bitcoin mining equipment. According to Somerset County Prosecutor Geoffrey D Soriano, Vincent Saggese, 32, of Metuchen, NJ, met with a Somerset County Prosecutor's Office undercover detective twice and negotiated the sale of stolen KNC Miner Neptune devices. Saggese, who worked for the Plainfield Police Department for 10 years, was also charged with professional misconduct after allegedly accepting $250 from the undercover detective and agreeing to obtain the address and....
An ex-cop in New Jersey indicted last year for trying to sell stolen bitcoin mining equipment has reportedly plead guilty. Regional news service NJ.com reported today that Vincent Saggese plead guilty to official misconduct and receiving stolen property after being caught in a sting operation last year. Saggese was charged in April 2015 after attempting to sell a collection of stolen computer equipment that included mining products from KnCMiner. A 10-year veteran of the Plainfield Police Department, Saggese faces a sentence of as much as five years probation and mandatory community service.
The around 30 individuals are suspected to have traded cryptocurrency stolen during the $560 million exchange hack in 2018.
A darknet vendor called “DoubleFlag” is selling user data stolen between 2011 and 2017 from 11 bitcoin forums for traders and miners, according to Hackread.com. The selling price is $400 (0.3817 BTC). The heists include: • About 12 million data units from 536,727 MerlinsMagicBitcoin.com accounts stolen in January 2017. • 514,409 from BitcoinTalk.org stolen in May 2015. • 568,357 stolen from BTC-E in October 2014. • 21,439 stolen from BTC4Free in January 2014. • 3,153 from Bitcoin.Lixter.com in September 2014. • 1,780 from BitLeak.net in March 2014. • 28,298 from DogeWallet.com in January....