Friday, 15 November 2019
Authorities have arrested two men and charged them with plotting to steal half a million dollars worth of cryptocurrency via SIM-swapping. Eric Meiggs, 21, of Brockton, Massachusetts, and Declan Harrington, 20, of Rockport, Massachusetts, were charged in an 11-count indictment, facing allegations of one count of conspiracy, eight counts of wire fraud, one count of computer fraud and abuse, and one count of aggravated identity theft. Meiggs and Harrington allegedly targeted executives of cryptocurrency businesses and others who held significantly large amounts of cryptocurrency and those who had high-value social media account names, the indictment says. Both men allegedly conspired to…
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