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Bitcoin Daily: Crypto Scammers’ Daily Haul Drops 66 Pct Due To COVID-19; ATBCoin To Settle ICO Suit For $250,000; Gold Investor Peter Schiff Predicts Bitcoin Fall

April 12, 2020
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TalkTalk Hacker, Blackmailer To Serve Four Years
Security & Fraud // June 11, 2019

The hacker responsible for the TalkTalk Telecom Group breach has been sentenced to four years in prison in the U.K. Bloomberg reported that Daniel Kelley, 22, was sentenced after pleading guilty to 11 charges of hacking and blackmailing TalkTalk. The attack, which happened in 2015,...

Paytm Founder Targeted In Blackmail Scheme
Security & Fraud // October 24, 2018

Three people have been remanded in India over an alleged plot to blackmail the founder of Paytm for $2.7 million. According to Reuters on Monday (Oct. 22), Paytm’s spokeswoman, “Sonia Dhawan, her husband Rupak Jain and another Paytm employee, Devendra Kumar, were arrested on Monday following...

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Bitcoin Daily: Crypto Scammers’ Daily Haul Drops 66 Pct Due To COVID-19; ATBCoin To Settle...

April 12, 2020
Cryptocurrency scams aren’t doing so hot with the current pandemic conditions, dropping in value by 61 percent between March 13 and 31. It’s recovered a bit since that time, but the value of Ponzi schemes and investment scams, which are most of what constitute cryptocurrency scams, has been seriously deficient due to the pandemic. That […]

TalkTalk Hacker, Blackmailer To Serve Four Years

June 11, 2019
The hacker responsible for the TalkTalk Telecom Group breach has been sentenced to four years in prison in the U.K. Bloomberg reported that Daniel Kelley, 22, was sentenced after pleading...

Paytm Founder Targeted In Blackmail Scheme

October 24, 2018
Three people have been remanded in India over an alleged plot to blackmail the founder of Paytm for $2.7 million. According to Reuters on Monday (Oct. 22), Paytm’s spokeswoman, “Sonia Dhawan,...