Russian Bitcoin thieves get sentenced after stealing data from cryptocurrency forum

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Two men got suspended jail sentences of 2 years and a half year in the wake of taking digital currency worth more than RUB 800,000 by means of an online gathering.

Russian specialists keep on prosecuting cryptographic money misrepresentation, with the most recent case of such activities originating from the town of Nyagan. The Russian police today declared that two men, conceived in 1993, have been accused of extortion and condemned over taking BTC-e codes from online discussion clients.

Every one of the men got a suspended jail sentence of 2 years and a half year, the police said in its declaration.

Over the span of the examination, the police found that the offenders acquired access to the database of a digital money online gathering and wrongfully took advantage of the data of the clients of the discussion. At that point the team made a subject for trading BTC-e codes for Russian rubles. What's more, the crooks utilized the names and profiles of the clients whose information they stole to distribute positive remarks and audits in the subject they made on the gathering.

Because of the misrepresentation, the culprits got BTC-e codes worth (around then) RUB 821,100. They misused the assets and spent them as they saw fit.

The Russian police have been caught up with researching cases including digital forms of money of late. Along these lines, in March, a 66-year old lady from Russia's city of Novosibirsk was accused of misrepresentation. The test has demonstrated that she introduced herself as an agent of a worldwide organization and sorted out a cryptographic money class in the town of Biysk. The point of the occasion was to "educate the general population how to profit by digital forms of money". Each member in the class needed to give the fraudster RUB 31,000 keeping in mind the end goal to have the remarkable chance to create comes back from digital currencies. Subsequent to getting the money of a few casualties, the 66-year old trick engineer spend the cash as she wished.

Virtual monetary forms are not managed in Russia, making them extremely appealing for tricksters. The Central Bank of Russia has cautioned a few times about the dangers related with interests in Bitcoin and its preferences, and in addition about the dangers related with introductory coin offerings (ICOs).

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