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News Highlights: Hacker pleads guilty to blackmailing Adafruit, Bleacher Report, and other sites for bitcoin. A Cypriot man pleaded guilty to hacking and
Get Permission A Cypriot hacker has pleaded guilty to a pair of federal charges after admitting that he hacked the websites of several U.S. organizations, stole data and then threatened to disclose it unless a ransom was paid, according to the U.S. Justice Department. Joshua Polloso Epifaniou, 21, of Nicosia, Cyprus, pleaded guilty this week to computer fraud conspiracy and obtaining information from a protected computer. He faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine when he's sentenced in March, according to court documents. Police in Cyprus arrested Epifaniou in February 2018, an...
Hacker pleads guilty to blackmailing Adafruit, Bleacher Report, and other sites for bitcoin He also operated a ‘reputation management’ scam Share this story A Cypriot man pleaded guilty to hacking and blackmailing several US companies. Joshua Epifaniou admitted to computer fraud and paid $600,000 in restitution to his victims. He was extradited from Cyprus and will be sentenced on March 3rd. Epifaniou operated what he described as a “hacking, extortion, blackmailing, [and] bluffing” scheme from 2014 to 2016. Going by aliases that included “Charley Sullivan” and “Richard Charley,...
>> bentley. >> yeah. as you can see, he was the one who wanted the car and the name and the show. >> chief tex h he banished james from the reservation. but there was something neither tex nor sarah knew just then. not just that the spokane cops were investigating sarah's wayward husband. out on the north dakota prairie, another lawman had been ki around for more than a year. homeland security agent derrick truedell had heard from a colleague about the missing casey clark and the ripoff report and other possible crimes. >> he told me the story, and it sounded unbelievable is what it did. >> er...
I got a hit on what's called a ripoff report which i'd never heard of. and i clicked on it and a flyer came up that said beware of these people. >> what do you know, the ken and barbie of the oil field. >> it said they're known frauds. they're running fraud scams in north dakota. don't do any business. >> grievances were rife around that oil project in which doug and james and others were involved. the ripoff report was put out as a flyer in stores and businesses all around the oil patch. it was pay back, apparently. by one particularly disgruntled former partner. but then not everything was a...