NEW YORK –
The administrator of a large illegal bitcoinbeurs the prison. Anthony Murgio (33) of the Coin.mx is Tuesday in New York sentenced to 5,5 years of imprisonment. He was found guilty, among other things, fraud.
Murgio had during the process of debt known and regret expressed. Many users of the scholarship were victims of ransomware, which the makers thereof in bitcoins had to pay to get their files back. Murgio was not suspected of the computergijzelingen itself, but ,,abused he is the despair for their own benefit,” said the prosecutor. Murgio said: ,,I regret all the damage I have caused. I thought it was okay, does not mean that it was okay.”
The large man behind the Coin.mx, for whom Murgio worked, was Gery Shalon. That was in 2015 arrested in Israel and last year extradited to the United States. The process against him is still pending. The gang of Shalon would certainly nine major companies have been hacked including JPMorgan Chase in 2014. The criminals were data of more than 100 million people and companies loot and used the information for beleggingsfraude.