First Convicted SIM-Swap Hacker Agrees to 10-Year Sentence

February 3, 2019 @ 10:53 am By Cali Haan |

Joel Ortiz, a 20-year-old California college student, has accepted a plea deal and has agreed to a sentence of 10 years for stealing $5 million in cryptocurrencies from victims he robbed via SIM-swap hack, Motherboard reports. Ortiz will be sentenced on March 14, and it… Read More

Hacker Arrested in Oklahoma for $14 Million Crypto Heist Now Linked to $2 Million Hack on ICO Investor Ian Balina

October 12, 2018 @ 11:36 am By Cali Haan |

One of two young men suspected of hacking $14 million in crypto from the Crowd Machine project in September has now been tied to a $2 million April hack on ICO investor and influencer Ian Balina, Motherboard reports. Fletcher Robert Childers, 23, and Joseph Harris,… Read More

Two Young Men in Oklahoma Charged with $14 Million Crowd Machine Crypto Hack

September 30, 2018 @ 6:27 pm By Cali Haan |

Two young men accused of stealing one billion “Crowd Machine Compute Tokens” (worth $14 million) directly from the Crowd Machine crypto project last weekend were arrested Monday at an Oklahoma hotel, Oklahoma News 4 reports. Fletcher Robert Childers, 23, and Joseph Harris, 21, both of Missouri,… Read More