True story: The 17-y/o kid arrested in Florida for taking part in the 2020 Twitter hack that caused a ton of celebrity accounts to tweet bitcoin scams, got the court to force the secret service to give him back 300 bitcoin. He's out of jail now, and that 300 bitcoin is now worth about $30 million.
krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/th…
tampabay.com/news/crime/2020/0…
https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/113529680896509377
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/three-charged-in-july-15-twitter-compromise/
https://www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2020/08/01/twitter-teen-makes-first-court-appearance-in-tampa/
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I knew—notice that that's past tense, fortunately—someone who got life without the possibility of parole, and who earned every bit of that sentence. When I found out he was […]
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Are there any public documents you can point me to regarding the court ordered return of the 300 BTC?
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@briankrebs And yet the cops can seize cars, jewelry, cash, just about anything, on the grounds it was the proceeds of a crime, even when they never charge anyone with any crime at all. And yet […]
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The look on his face says it all.
@briankrebs The article says they seized 400 bitcoins but returned 300? Why the discrepancy? Could they prove that 100 came from crime and couldn't the other 300?
It's not even that uncommon for cybercrooks to get let out of jail and literally go dig up a trezor hardware wallet and retrieve millions of stolen money.
I don't think we've come to terms […]
@briankrebs apparently in America crime does pay.
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The entirety of 2024 can be summed up as: Do more criming.
@briankrebs Crime pays...
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