{"id":363352,"date":"2018-11-22T11:00:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniquehot.com\/?p=363352"},"modified":"2018-11-22T06:03:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T06:03:56","slug":"silicon-valley-execs-targeted-in-sim-swap-hacking-1-million-in-crypto-stolen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniquehot.com\/news\/ai-and-tech\/silicon-valley-execs-targeted-in-sim-swap-hacking-1-million-in-crypto-stolen\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley Execs Targeted in &#8216;SIM Swap&#8217; Hacking, $1 Million in Crypto Stolen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A twenty-one-year-old New Yorker has stolen cryptocurrency worth a million dollars from a Silicon Valley executive by\u00a0exploiting a tactic known as &#8220;SIM swapping&#8221; to take over phone number accounts by duping wireless carriers. The thief, Nicholas Truglia, attempted to steal from other crypto bigwigs with no success.<\/p>\n<h2>Twenty-One-Year-Old Steals $1m from Crypto Angel Investor<\/h2>\n<p>Robert Ross, a San Francisco-based angel investor involved in initial coin offering pre-sales, had his phone stolen by New York con man Nicholas Truglia. The subsequent swap of his SIM card rendered $500,000 from two separate accounts he had at Coinbase and Gemini, totaling $1 million, deputy DA Erin West of Santa Clara Superior Court told <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2018\/11\/20\/man-hacked-into-silicon-valley-execs-phones-to-steal-cryptocurrency-cops\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s a new way of doing an old crime. It\u2019s a pervasive problem, and it involves millions of dollars [&#8230;] You\u2019re sitting in your home, your phone is in front of you, and you suddenly become aware there is no service because the bad guy has taken control of your phone number.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Besides the crypto angel investor, the twenty-one-year-old also hacked the phones of a number of executives in the cryptocurrency space, including\u00a0the CEO of blockchain storage firm oChain,\u00a0Saswata Basu, hedge fund executive Myles Danielsen, and Gabrielle Katsnelson, the co-founder of the startup SMBX. His other attempts, however, were unfruitful.\u00a0The thief has been charged with 21 counts, including identity theft, fraud, embezzlement,\u00a0 and attempted grand theft auto.<\/p>\n<p>The deputy DA told media that Truglia stole Robert Ross&#8217; entire life savings, which were destined to his daughters&#8217; college education. According to the authorities, the thief\u00a0converted the cash to cryptocurrency and moved it into his personal account. After obtaining a warrant, officials searched Truglia&#8217;s 42nd Street high-rise in Manhattan only to recover $300,000 worth of crypto\u00a0from a computer hard drive. Police do not expect to find the rest of the missing money, though.<\/p>\n<p>Truglia, who is being held at the Manhattan Detention Complex, will be extradited to California in order to face the above mentioned 21 felony accounts related to a one-week hacking spree which made a total of six victims.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe takeaway here to the hackers is, \u2018We don\u2019t care where you\u2019re located, we are a task force based in Silicon Valley, and our reach is nationwide.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>SIM Swap fraud has affected many investors in the cryptocurrency space in recent times.\u00a0 In September, a<span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/uniquehot.com\/2018\/09\/18\/pro-league-of-legends-gamer-robbed-of-200k-in-crypto-in-sim-hack\/\">prominent eSports gamer<\/a> said \u201csomeone stole $200,000\u201d from him in an analogous cybercrime. In August, American blockchain and crypto investor <a href=\"https:\/\/uniquehot.com\/2018\/08\/15\/us-investor-files-lawsuit-against-att-over-cryptocurrency-theft\/\">Michael Terpin<\/a> filed a lawsuit against AT&amp;T over a SIM swap hack worth\u00a0<\/span>around $23.8 million at the time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre>Image from Shutterstock<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A twenty-one-year-old New Yorker has stolen cryptocurrency worth a million dollars from a Silicon Valley executive by\u00a0exploiting a tactic known as &#8220;SIM swapping&#8221; to take over phone number accounts by duping wireless carriers. The thief, Nicholas Truglia, attempted to steal from other crypto bigwigs with no success. Twenty-One-Year-Old Steals $1m from Crypto Angel Investor Robert Ross, a San Francisco-based angel investor involved in initial coin offering pre-sales, had his phone stolen by New York con man Nicholas Truglia. The subsequent swap of his SIM card rendered $500,000 from two separate accounts he had at Coinbase and Gemini, totaling $1 million, deputy DA Erin West of Santa Clara Superior Court told New York Post. \u201cIt\u2019s a new way of doing an old crime. It\u2019s a pervasive problem, and it involves millions of dollars [&#8230;] You\u2019re sitting in your home, your phone is in front of you, and you suddenly become aware there is no service because the bad guy has taken control of your phone number.&#8221; Besides the crypto angel investor, the twenty-one-year-old also hacked the phones of a number of executives in the cryptocurrency space, including\u00a0the CEO of blockchain storage firm oChain,\u00a0Saswata Basu, hedge fund executive Myles Danielsen, and Gabrielle Katsnelson, the co-founder of the startup SMBX. His other attempts, however, were unfruitful.\u00a0The thief has been charged with 21 counts, including identity theft, fraud, embezzlement,\u00a0 and attempted grand theft auto. The deputy DA told media that Truglia stole Robert Ross&#8217; entire life savings, which were destined to his daughters&#8217; college education. According to the authorities, the thief\u00a0converted the cash to cryptocurrency and moved it into his personal account. After obtaining a warrant, officials searched Truglia&#8217;s 42nd Street high-rise in Manhattan only to recover $300,000 worth of crypto\u00a0from a computer hard drive. Police do not expect to find the rest of the missing money, though. Truglia, who is being held at the Manhattan Detention Complex, will be extradited to California in order to face the above mentioned 21 felony accounts related to a one-week hacking spree which made a total of six victims. \u201cThe takeaway here to the hackers is, \u2018We don\u2019t care where you\u2019re located, we are a task force based in Silicon Valley, and our reach is nationwide.&#8221; SIM Swap fraud has affected many investors in the cryptocurrency space in recent times.\u00a0 In September, a\u00a0prominent eSports gamer said \u201csomeone stole $200,000\u201d from him in an analogous cybercrime. In August, American blockchain and crypto investor Michael Terpin filed a lawsuit against AT&amp;T over a SIM swap hack worth\u00a0around $23.8 million at the time. &nbsp; Image from Shutterstock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":486,"featured_media":363381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12436],"tags":[428,1189,6664,1557,17061,2276,15891,17060,3148,17057,17058,17056,17059,17052,17054,17055,17053,17062],"class_list":["post-363352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai-and-tech","tag-bitcoin","tag-california","tag-crypto","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-gabrielle-katsnelson","tag-hack","tag-michael-terpin","tag-myles-danielsen","tag-new-york","tag-nicholas-truglia","tag-ochain","tag-robert-ross","tag-saswata-basu","tag-sim-swao","tag-sim-swap-fraud","tag-sim-swap-hack","tag-sim-swapping","tag-smbx"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Silicon Valley Execs Targeted in &#039;SIM Swap&#039; Hacking, $1 Million in Crypto Stolen<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A twenty-one-year-old New Yorker has stolen cryptocurrency worth a million dollars from a Silicon Valley executive by\u00a0exploiting a tactic known as &quot;SIM A 21 y.o. 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