‘I’ve lost my Bitcoin code’

A computer expert who cloned websites to help fraudsters rip companies out of £41.6 million does not have to pay back a penny because he lost the code to his Bitcoin wallet. Bulgarian Svetoslav Donchev, 37, created ‘phishing protection scripts’ which were embedded on cloned websites of legitimate firms. The clones were then hosted on a server controlled by cyber criminals who lured victims in by sending phishing emails. When the user completed the forms by inputting their personal financial…