Noah Michael Urban, Wire Fraud, Florida 2025

A Palm Coast hacker has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft.

Sr. U.S. District Judge Harvey E. Schlesinger handed down the sentence to Noah Michael Urban, 20, a/k/a “King Bob,” “Sosa,” “Elijah,” and “Gustavo Fring,” who was ordered to forfeit approximately $4.8 million in assets and pay $13 million in restitution.

Urban entered a guilty plea on April 4, 2025. The court documents revealed that Urban was involved in stealing cryptocurrency from at least 59 victims across the United States between August 2022 and March 2023.

Urban and others conducted targeted attacks called “SIM swaps,” to obtain victims’ personal identification information (PII). Once Urban obtained victims’ PII, he hacked into their cryptocurrency accounts online and stole their cryptocurrency.

During this same timeframe, Urban was also part of a group that targeted employees of companies nationwide with phishing text messages. The harvested employee credentials were then used to log in and steal non-public company data and information. The group also used stolen information obtained from victim company intrusions, leaked data sets, and other sources to gain unauthorized access to numerous individuals’ cryptocurrency accounts and wallets and steal millions of dollars of virtual currency.

The FBI served a search warrant on Urban’s residence and found evidence on Urban’s computer linking him to the victims’ email accounts and cryptocurrency wallets. In addition, cryptocurrency totaling approximately $4.8 million from the victims’ stolen accounts was found on Urban’s devices. The total loss to the victims was over $13 million.

This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney John Cannizzaro of the Middle District of Florida and Assistant United States Attorney Lauren Restrepo of the Central District of California.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdfl/pr/palm-coast-hacker-sentenced-10-years-prison