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Drug dealer loses codes for €53.6m bitcoin accounts

Posted on February 21, 2020 by Dissent

Who among us hasn’t lost our passwords to $58 million, right?  Conor Lally reports: A drug dealer who amassed a €55 million fortune in the cryptocurrency bitcoin has lost the codes to access the accounts after hiding them with his fishing rod, which has now gone missing. The Criminal Assets Bureau (Cab) has confiscated the 12 online…

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AlphaBay Dark Web Market Mod Faces 20 Years After Pleading Guilty

Posted on January 30, 2020 by Dissent

Sergiu Gatlan reports an update on the case against Bryan Connor Herrell, who was indicted in 2019. Bryan Connor Herrell, a 25-year-old from Fresno, California, pleaded guilty this week in the US to racketeering charges related to the now-defunct dark web marketplace Alphabay. Before AlphaBay was shut down by law enforcement in July 2017, Herrell was a marketplace…

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Canadian teen calls cops after fake ID doesn’t arrive

Posted on January 23, 2020 by Dissent

OK, I think this one may win my headlines today. Stephen Sorace reports: A Canadian teen’s bizarre call to police on Tuesday to report that the fake ID they ordered online never arrived has authorities stepping up efforts to warn of potential identity theft scams. Const. Ed Sanchuk, of the Ontario Provincial Police, West Region, shared in a video message Wednesday that an unnamed Norfolk…

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Brazil Prosecutors Charge U.S. Journalist Glenn Greenwald With Cybercrimes

Posted on January 21, 2020 by Dissent

Jeffrey T. Lewis reports: Brazilian prosecutors on Tuesday charged the American journalist and activist Glenn Greenwald with cybercrimes related to the hacking of Justice Minister Sergio Moro’s cell phone last year, raising concerns about press freedoms in Latin America’s largest democracy. Federal prosecutors say Mr. Greenwald, who co-founded The Intercept news site and lives in…

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Happy New Year!

Posted on December 31, 2019 by Dissent

Wishing you all a Happy and Healthy New Year in 2020.

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Huawei calls hackers to Munich for secret bug bounty meeting

Posted on November 6, 2019 by Dissent

Zack Whittaker reports: Chinese tech giant Huawei has asked some of the world’s best phone hackers to a secret meeting in Munich later this month as the company tries to curry favor with global governments, TechCrunch has learned. Sources with knowledge of the November 16 meeting said Huawei will privately present its new bug bounty…

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