Luxury assets worth more than $4.5 million have been forfeited after being linked to a previously convicted Queensland hacker.
The haul, including a beachfront mansion, a 2019 black Mercedes-Benz sedan, and nearly 25 Bitcoin, was seized in April following a years-long investigation into stolen cryptocurrency and cyber hacking.
The AFP-led Criminal Assets Confiscation Taskforce (CACT) secured the forfeiture under proceeds of crime laws, arguing the assets were not in line with any identifiable legitimate income.
The assets were linked to Shane Stephen Duffy, a 32-year-old man from Queensland.
He had been previously convicted of hacking Riot Games, the US-based gaming company behind the hit video game League of Legends.
This site first reported on Duffy back in 2014 for allegedly hacking League of Legends. According to 7News, Australian authorities secured restraining orders over the assets in 2019, and they were eventually forfeited in April.
The person who sent DataBreaches a news tip on today’s news story also provided some other links as context, as well as a confession by the hacker known as Sri Krishna Ramesh, aka “Sriki,” who had engaged in some activities with Shane when he was younger.
