Category: Theft

The Silk Road Dark Web Thief James Zhong – Act 1: Make Fat Stacks

July 31, 2023

Meet James Zhong, a 22 year old who single handedly stole more than $3.4 ***BILLION*** Bitcoin from The Silk Road in 2012! This is eCrimeBytes.com S 2 Ep 1-1: The Silk Road…
Los Angeles SIM Swapper Pleads Guilty – eCrimeBytes Nibble #54

July 25, 2023

Amir Hossein Golshan, 24, pleaded guilty to one count of unauthorized access to a protected computer to obtain information, one count of wire fraud, and one count of accessing a computer to…
Man Sentenced For ID Theft And Wire Fraud Using Verizon Wireless – eCrimeBytes Nibble #48

June 29, 2023

Felix Pena was sentenced to 60 months (5 years) after a plea to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. He is also ordered to pay $404,069 in restitution. What…
Email Compromise Leads To 33 Months For Money Laundering – eCrimeBytes Nibble #47

June 27, 2023

A man from NY was sentenced to a 33 month term after a trial in which he was found guilty for money laundering. The government claimed Kaodichimma Anyanwu laundered approximately $67,921 through…
The DraftKings Hack – eCrimeBytes Nibble #46

June 22, 2023

Joseph Garrison’s gamble that he could get away with hacking DraftKings did not pay off. Garrison’s story is told best from the official DoJ complaint: In or about November 2022, in the…
Chirag Patel Gets 51 Months For Stolen Credit Cards And Reward Points Fraud – eCrimeBytes Nibble #45

June 20, 2023

I’ve seen a lot of credit card theft in network breach cases, but theft of reward points to book free stays and gift certificates is a new one to me. On numerous…
eCrimeBytes S 1 Ep 16: The Ubiquiti Insider

June 14, 2023

Sit back and listen to how a former security engineer at Ubiquiti costed their shareholders $4 billion dollars when he stole their data and posted online after they failed to pay his…
Skynet Dark Web Market Founder Pleads Guilty – eCrimeBytes Nibble #38

June 6, 2023

This is not the Skynet you know from The Terminator. This Skynet was a dark web forum used by those looking to purchase or sell stolen credit card information. According to the…
Ex-Uber CSO Joe Sullivan Receives Probation For Cover Up – eCrimeBytes Nibble #36

June 2, 2023

Sit back and listen to the story of Joe Sullivan, Uber’s former Chief Security Officer (CSO) and his cover up of a data breach landing him… probation? This was a highly publicized…
One Of Florida’s Biggest Ponzi Schemes – eCrimeBytes Nibble #35

June 1, 2023

Michael DaCorta was behind a FL Ponzi scheme tricking 700 victims into giving him $80 million dollars to invest. It looks like this was a traditional Ponzi scheme where earlier “investors” in…