Iona Cleave reports: The real identity of Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto could finally be revealed, unlocking the key to his £36billion fortune. A UK court will now decide if Craig Wright, 54, is the mysterious, anonymous crypto-king who disappeared from the internet over a decade ago. Wright, an Australian computer scientist who lives in London, has been…
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“Pompompurin” taken into custody after violating conditions of pre-sentencing release on bond (1)
In what will likely come as no surprise to those who know Conor Brian Fitzpatrick aka “Pompompurin,” he allegedly violated the conditions of his pre-sentencing release on bond by using a VPN on the internet and without the necessary monitoring required by his release conditions. He was arrested on January 3 and detained until a…
Happy New Year 2024
On January 1, 2009, DataBreaches posted its first “Happy New Year” post. If you had asked me to predict if I’d still be posting breaches on this site 15 years later, I would have laughed. And yet, here I am and here we still are, with more than 34,500 posts on this site. Every year,…
Multiple Ohio schools receive threats, believed to be Russian hackers, saying bombs are in schools
John Lynch reports: Schools in Ohio have received threats of multiple explosives inside American schools. 7News received emails from parents that said area schools received threats that there were explosives inside the school. In Ohio, the Ohio School Safety Center, the Department of Education and Workforce and the FBI have been notified. The threats are…
Founder and Majority Owner of Cryptocurrency Exchange Pleads Guilty to Unlicensed Money Transmitting
Bitzlato Ltd. Processed More Than $700M Worth of Illicit Funds and Was Primary Counterparty of Notorious Drug Bazaar Hydra Market; Advertised Lax Identification Procedures The founder and majority owner of Bitzlato Ltd. (Bitzlato), a cryptocurrency exchange that served as a primary conduit for dark market purchasers and sellers, as well as a safe haven for…
Leader of $70M Cryptocurrency and Binary Options Fraud Schemes Extradited to the U.S.
November 3 – A Serbian man has been extradited to the United States, where he faces charges in two separate federal indictments in the Northern District of Texas and Eastern District of New York for his alleged participation in coordinated cryptocurrency and binary options schemes. On Feb. 3, pursuant to a request for provisional arrest…