A computer hacker who sold the personal data of thousands of people on the dark web faces jail after admitting a string of offences.
Police began investigating Grant West, 26, after he conned details from Just Eat customers in 2015The personal data of around 165,000 people was compromised. Detectives later found he had 63,000 credit and debit card details - and seized more than £500,000 in bitcoins belonging to West
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Between July 2015 and December 2015 he targeted online food delivery firm Just Eat, using a scam in which customers received a bogus email offering a voucher in return for answering questions about the service
The emails allowed West to harvest information - including customers' names, addresses and payment card details - in order to sell to other criminals.
Once he had a complete set of customer details he would sell them on via the now-defunct online dark web market Alpha Bay, with the user name "courvoisier".
The details were sold as "Fullz" - a slang term on the dark web used to describe a full set of customer details that would allow others to defraud individual bank accounts and credit cards. The courvoisier account sold details belonging to 9,627 people - many of whom lost significant amounts to other online fraudsters.
Police say West made more than £180,000 from the scam. The proceeds from his business were converted into Bitcoins and stored in multiple accounts.
The Just Eat phishing scam cost the firm more than £200,000 - but also gave specialist detectives from London's Metropolitan Police their first lead.si es que la gente es muy inocente contestando emails y no se molestan en equiparar la comodidad de comprar desde casa con la seguridad que deben adoptar a priori, proporcionar la mínima información personal posible y destinar específicamente una tarjeta para los usos online, mejor si es de prepago
los criminales están encantado con las bitcoins
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