Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) February 06, 2023 Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP expanded its Corporate and Financial Regulatory & Compliance practices
As you know from the title of my blog, "CyberCrime & Doing Time," I'm very interested in cybercrime and the criminal justice system. This week I've been looking at SIM Swapping cases and wanted to share what I learned from reading the sentencing memos sentencing transcript for Ricky Handschumacher. Ricky was one of the members of "The Community" - a group of six OGUsers/HackForums punks who decided to go into the crypto theft business. They haunted crypto community forums gathering data on people who over-shared about their crypto earnings and then did the social media intelligence (SOCMINT) work to id their target, assess their holdings, get their online credentials, and then pay a phone company contractor or employee to SIM Swap their device and steal their crypto. They stole over $50 Million dollars. Ricky was the last guy to get sentenced. The other members of the group (not their phone store patsies, but the core group) were: Conor Freeman, 20
/PRNewswire/ Last week, two former Lake Michigan Credit Union (LMCU) loan officers accused the bank of violating federal and state labor laws. In a 57-page.