‘Phisher King’ loses £900k Bitcoin fortune

A cyber criminal known as ‘Courvoisier’ has been ordered to pay back the £900,000 fortune he made operating a phishing scam from caravan in Sheerness. Grant West, 26, sent emails pretending to come from ‘Just Eat’ to trick users into handing over their personal data. He also carried out cyber attacks on Sainsbury’s, Asda, Uber, Argos, Ladbrokes and Coral to harvest customer’s email addresses. When police raided the caravan they found 78 million individual usernames and passwords and 63,000 credit…

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