{"id":11722,"date":"2018-05-25T17:55:49","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T17:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=11722"},"modified":"2018-05-25T17:55:49","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T17:55:49","slug":"london-police-seize-bitcoin-worth-667000-from-hacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=11722","title":{"rendered":"London police seize bitcoin worth $667,000 from hacker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>London, May 25 (DIN NEWS)<\/b> London police have seized half a million pounds ( 667,000) worth of bitcoin from a prolific computer hacker in a case described as the first of its kind for the 188-year-old department.<\/p>\n<p>Cybercrime detectives seized the bitcoin from Grant West, 26, who was sentenced to 10 years and 8 months in prison Friday for attacking some 100 companies worldwide, largely using &#8216;phishing&#8217; email scams to obtain the financial data.<\/p>\n<p>Once he obtained the data, West would then sell the material to market places on the dark web and convert his profits into bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>The London Metropolitan police discovered evidence of cyberattacks on 17 major firms including Sainsbury&#8217;s, Asda, the British Cardiovascular Society and the Finnish bitcoin exchange.<\/p>\n<p>Officers also recovered a memory card containing approximately 78 million individual usernames and passwords.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London, May 25 (DIN NEWS) London police have seized half a million pounds ( 667,000) worth of bitcoin from a prolific computer hacker in a case described as the first of its kind for the 188-year-old department. Cybercrime detectives seized the bitcoin from Grant West, 26, who was sentenced to 10 years and 8 months in prison Friday for attacking some 100 companies worldwide, largely using &#8216;phishing&#8217; email scams to obtain the financial data. Once he obtained the data, West would then sell the material to market places on the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11724,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11722\/revisions\/11724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}