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A teenager from the UK was sentenced to 20 months in prison for participating in cybercrime schemes, including SIM-swapping attacks.
Norfolk Police said the case of 19-year-old Elliot Gunton, who lives in Norwich, was heard by the local court. Ganton was charged with cybercrime activities.
Initially, the young man was accused of money laundering and hacking an Australian Instagram account. When investigators examined his laptop, it became clear that the young man was also involved in much more serious illegal cases.
In particular, Ganton offered its services as a provider of hacker services. To those who hired him, the teenager promised to provide personal information of the targets: names, addresses, details of online accounts.
All this data was subsequently used for fraudulent actions involving the substitution of SIM cards.
As you probably know, to carry out such attacks, the attacker must call the telecom operator, introducing himself as the victim. This is where a person's personal data will be required to convince the operator that the fraudster is a real subscriber.
• Source: https://www.norfolk.police.uk/news/latest-news/16-08-2019/man-sentenced-hacking-offences#na
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Norwich Crown Court sentenced British citizen Elliot Gunton, who hacked more than 500 accounts on the American crypto exchange Coinbase in 2018 and 2019, to 3.5 years in prison.
Elliot Gunton has pleaded guilty to fraud outside the UK and money laundering. Together with his accomplices, he stole crypto assets totaling more than $900,000 from 500 hacked Coinbase accounts. The criminal was 17 years old at the time. Ganton gained access to the exchange's client accounts by luring victims to fraudulent websites, where they revealed their usernames and passwords.
"This is a very complex crime that was carefully planned and required technical knowledge," Judge Alice Robinson said in a statement.
This is not the first time Gunton has gone through legal proceedings. In 2019, a man was sentenced to 20 months in prison for stealing personal data of TalkTalk customers. Gunton sold the stolen information for bitcoins. However, he managed to avoid prison, as he had already served his sentence during the investigation. After hacking several Instagram accounts, Gunton was ordered to pay a fine of 407,359 British pounds (about $524,700).
• Source: https://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/new...er-elliott-gunton-jailed-cryptocurrency-scam/
• Source: https://www.northnorfolknews.co.uk/...entenced-norfolk-week-beginning-july-22-2024/
Norfolk Police said the case of 19-year-old Elliot Gunton, who lives in Norwich, was heard by the local court. Ganton was charged with cybercrime activities.
Initially, the young man was accused of money laundering and hacking an Australian Instagram account. When investigators examined his laptop, it became clear that the young man was also involved in much more serious illegal cases.
In particular, Ganton offered its services as a provider of hacker services. To those who hired him, the teenager promised to provide personal information of the targets: names, addresses, details of online accounts.
All this data was subsequently used for fraudulent actions involving the substitution of SIM cards.
As you probably know, to carry out such attacks, the attacker must call the telecom operator, introducing himself as the victim. This is where a person's personal data will be required to convince the operator that the fraudster is a real subscriber.
• Source: https://www.norfolk.police.uk/news/latest-news/16-08-2019/man-sentenced-hacking-offences#na
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Norwich Crown Court sentenced British citizen Elliot Gunton, who hacked more than 500 accounts on the American crypto exchange Coinbase in 2018 and 2019, to 3.5 years in prison.
Elliot Gunton has pleaded guilty to fraud outside the UK and money laundering. Together with his accomplices, he stole crypto assets totaling more than $900,000 from 500 hacked Coinbase accounts. The criminal was 17 years old at the time. Ganton gained access to the exchange's client accounts by luring victims to fraudulent websites, where they revealed their usernames and passwords.
"This is a very complex crime that was carefully planned and required technical knowledge," Judge Alice Robinson said in a statement.
This is not the first time Gunton has gone through legal proceedings. In 2019, a man was sentenced to 20 months in prison for stealing personal data of TalkTalk customers. Gunton sold the stolen information for bitcoins. However, he managed to avoid prison, as he had already served his sentence during the investigation. After hacking several Instagram accounts, Gunton was ordered to pay a fine of 407,359 British pounds (about $524,700).
• Source: https://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/new...er-elliott-gunton-jailed-cryptocurrency-scam/
• Source: https://www.northnorfolknews.co.uk/...entenced-norfolk-week-beginning-july-22-2024/
