IT guy jailed for ‘piggybacking’ $390k bitcoin blackmail plot
Ashley Liles was supposed to investigate a 2018 data breach but instead switched the blackmailer's bitcoin wallet address with his own.
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Ashley Liles was supposed to investigate a 2018 data breach but instead switched the blackmailer's bitcoin wallet address with his own.
Neo-Nazi student Harry Vaughan kept details of his crypto account hidden after he was handed a two-year suspended sentence.
42-year-old Simon Barclay was sentenced to nine years in prison for running a million-dollar drugs empire on the dark web.
Senior figures are worried that the UK's top crypto crime experts are choosing lucrative private sector positions over police jobs.
Some muggers returned the victim's smartphone after stealing thousands in crypto from their digital wallet.