Sitting on $50mil in BTC and gets arrested over the theft of a $150 laptop. Unbelievable!
Anyone know if this malware has been identified before?
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/crime/bitcoin-theft-theodore-price-montgomery-bucks-20170724.html
Hacker Theodore Price Arrested - Malware phished $50 Million Worth of Bitcoin
Sitting on $50mil in BTC and gets arrested over the theft of a $150 laptop. Unbelievable!
Anyone know if this malware has been identified before?
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/crime/bitcoin-theft-theodore-price-montgomery-bucks-20170724.html
[53 Points] shillface:
[19 Points] None:
self confessed
lol
[12 Points] obfsproxied:
CRIMINAL MASTERMIND: CHALLENGE UNLOCKED
[10 Points] bantamwimber70z:
What makes the most sense to me is that this guy owes some debts to some dangerous people. He knew a little bit about bitcoin because he was buying fullz on the darknet which were seized by police along with the other stolen goods.
The leet hacker in question hacked into the house of his girlfriend's parents (with a private key) and pirated both parents' laptop bags and a gold necklace. The hacker was then backdoored by his girlfriend who found some of the stolen goods and the fullz sitting in cold storage in his house. Girlfriend then uploaded the findings to law enforcement. U.S. Homeland Security admins then accessed the hacker's house and disabled his liberty. After doing a grep of the logs, admins discovered that hacker had pawned another laptop which was rented with girlfriend's account.
Dude likely had knowledge of bitcoin that extended as far as buying shit on the darkweb, and when he was arrested he wanted somebody to think that he is still worth a lot of money alive. Pawning the girlfriend's rented laptop seems like the point where he crossed the Rubicon. No covering it up or salvaging the relationship after that. I'm guessing he had more troublesome things on his mind than an angry ex-girlfriend. He concocted a story about being a hacker so that hopefully he won't be sleeping with the fishes after bonding out of jail.
[3 Points] Immaloner:
This guy is so fucking full of shit. I have NO idea what he thinks he's doing but phishing for bitcoins ain't one of them.
[3 Points] Frintebreeze:
Full of shit. If you have that much time and skills to pull that off then you can simply tumble and cash out a few coins. looser liar who wants attention.
[3 Points] skankhunt92:
"When the officers arrived at his door almost two weeks ago, he told them he had been preparing to flee to London on a chartered jet using a fake passport in the name of โAvengersโ movie star Jeremy Renner, a complaint filed in federal court July 19 says."
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This is pure fantasy, have you read it?
The twat didn't have time to tumble his 40 million quid so he broke into someone's house and stole 2 laptops and a necklace? Then goes and sells some of the haul locally?
Anyone capable of writing a poisoned wallet would be able to tumble coins in minutes. He's having a laugh