According to an official of the Ministry of Justice, an alleged member of the notorious group for cyber crime was issued on Wednesday on Wednesday.
Tyler Buchanan, 23 from Scotland, was arrested last year because of his alleged involvement in theft of sensitive data on American consumers and tens of millions of dollars in the cryptocurrency.
Buchanan, who was charged with a plot for committing fraud with wires, plot, fraud with wire and theft of identity, was detained in California after a court performance, the official said.
A lawyer representing Buchanan did not respond to the request for comment. A spokesman for the US law firm in the central California district, where the charges were filed, refused to express himself.
Buchanan and four co-defendants are accused of deceiving employees in many companies-including four major US telecommunications providers and one US cryptocurrency company-KE sharing their login data. This allowed hackers to penetrate into business systems, with the final goal to steal a cryptocurrency from their customers, the authorities said.
Hackers reportedly stolen customer data or accessible telephone providers that helped them capture text messages or calls. They would then focus on specific customers with phishing links in an effort to break cryptocurrency or financial accounts, accused.
Noah Urban of Florida, Joel Evans, from North Carolina and two inhabitants of Texas, Ahmed Elbadawa and Evans Osiebo, were accused of their role in cyber attacks, which includes hactes at least 29 individuals. According to prosecutors, the defendants are members of a hacker group known as a scattered spider.
The court submissions do not identify the names of the victims of hacking, but one of them was the online developer of the game Riot Games Inc., according to the person who is with this matter, Bloomberg informed in December, when the indictment was not timely.
Members of the scattered Spider were bound to attacks on MGM Resorts International, Caesars Entertainment Inc., Coinbase Global Inc. And others.
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