Tag: Hacking
Nathan Austad, Computer Intrusion, New York 2025
⏱ 2 min read Nathan Austad, aka ‘Snoopy’, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for his role in a scheme to hack user accounts on a fantasy sports and betting website in the Southern District of New York. On November 18, 2022, Austad and his co-conspirators launched a ‘credential stuffing attack’ on the website,…
Daniel Rhyne, Computer Network Hacking, New Jersey 2023
⏱ 2 min read A Missouri man unleashed a digital nightmare on a New Jersey-based industrial company, hacking into their computer network and demanding $750,000 in Bitcoin or face further destruction. Daniel Rhyne, 59, of Kansas City, Missouri, executed the scheme in November 2023. Rhyne, then a New Jersey resident, worked as a core infrastructure…
Amir Hossein Golshan, Wire Fraud, California 2023
Downtown LA ‘SIM Swapper’ Pleads Guilty to Hacking Instagram User Accounts, Causing $740K in Losses. Learn about the fraud schemes and legal consequences in this informative post.
