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Kamerin Stokes, aka ‘TheMFNPlug,’ has been sentenced to 30 months in the slammer for masterminding a brazen hack of a fantasy sports and betting website. Stokes and his crew compromised thousands of user accounts, raking in hundreds of thousands in losses.
The heist went down on November 18, 2022, when Stokes and his cohorts launched a ‘credential stuffing attack’ on the website. They used stolen login credentials from other massive data breaches, bought on the dark web, to gain access to user accounts.
Stokes audaciously reopened his operation after pleading guilty, even going so far as to market it with the tagline ‘fraud is fun.’ But U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton had a message for would-be online crooks: ‘Fraud is not fun; fraud on the street or fraud online will not be tolerated.’
Stokes was caught and brought to justice after a long investigation by the FBI and other agencies. This case sends a clear message to cybercrime scoundrels: you can’t hide online.
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📋 Key Facts
- Crime: Cybercrime
- Defendant: New York
- Location: NY
- Source: DOJ Press Release
