Will Cleveland reports:
A Rochester Institute of Technology student is among those charged by federal indictment in connection with a scheme to gain control of cryptocurrency wallets and accounts.
Reyad Gafar Abbas, 19, was one of six people charged in a 15-count indictment by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Michigan. Three other individuals were charged by criminal complaint.
Abbas is a third-year computer engineering student currently on leave this semester, the school confirmed.
Read more on the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle.