Hacked into other people's computers to steal virtual currency and cashed out 28 million, 7 people were sentenced for theft (from CoinsRadar.net):
It was learned from the Ningbo Jiangbei District Procuratorate on May 24, 2023 that Ningbo’s first large-scale currency theft case was recently prosecuted by the court. After trial by the court, the seven defendants were sentenced to 3 years in prison for the crime of theft. Penalties ranging from 4 years to 10 months.
According to reports, from June to December 2021, the defendant Su Moumou and seven other people published websites with Trojan software embedded on the Internet to trick others into downloading them. Once someone clicks on the download, the computer is hacked and controlled remotely. Su Moumou and others can control the victim's computer and steal the virtual coins from his virtual currency account. At the same time, they also pretended to be victims and provided accounts to their friends to receive virtual coins.
The coin-stealing gang has a clear division of labor. The boss He Moumou (handled in another case) is responsible for providing funds for renting houses, renting servers, purchasing computers and Trojan horse programs, and paying other people's wages; Su Moumou is responsible for command and specific operations, including recruiting people, assigning tasks, etc. Others are responsible for logging in to the victim's account remotely, forwarding the coin laundering address, etc.
Mr. Xu, a Ningbo citizen, is the victim. In December 2021, Mr. Xu found that more than 1.61 million Tether coins were missing from his account. A few days later, Mr. Xu contacted a friend through a software to ask for virtual coins. After sending the coin receiving address to the friend, he still did not receive it. He asked the other party but was told that the virtual currency had already been transferred. Mr. Xu checked the chat records and found that the account had been replaced long ago, and his friend's virtual currency was directly transferred into the account of the currency theft gang. Only then did Mr. Xu realize that his account had been stolen.
It turned out that after Su Moumou invaded Mr. Xu's computer, he also monitored his activities in real time. Once he monitored the chat records between Mr. Xu and his friends involving virtual currency transactions, he logged into Mr. Xu's chat account remotely and replaced the virtual currency account. A total of more than 3.98 million Tether coins and 100 Ethereum coins were received from the victim’s friends. In addition, Su Moumou and others also took the initiative and "borrowed" 100,000 Tether coins from another friend of his, pretending to be Mr. Xu.
The procuratorial organ determined that He Moumou used virtual currency to cash out a total of 28 million yuan.
After the incident, the public security agency recovered some virtual coins by freezing the receiving account.He Moumou took the initiative to compensate Mr. Xu 15 million yuan and was forgiven by the other party. Other defendants also refunded their illegal gains in full and compensated the victims for their losses.
The case was prosecuted by the Jiangbei Procuratorate. The court recently sentenced the accomplice Su Moumou to four years and ten months in prison for the crime of theft. The other six criminal gang members were each sentenced to three years in prison, with probation ranging from three years, six months to five years. .
It was learned from the Ningbo Jiangbei District Procuratorate on May 24, 2023 that Ningbo’s first large-scale currency theft case was recently prosecuted by the court. After trial by the court, the seven defendants were sentenced to 3 years in prison for the crime of theft. Penalties ranging from 4 years to 10 months.
According to reports, from June to December 2021, the defendant Su Moumou and seven other people published websites with Trojan software embedded on the Internet to trick others into downloading them. Once someone clicks on the download, the computer is hacked and controlled remotely. Su Moumou and others can control the victim's computer and steal the virtual coins from his virtual currency account. At the same time, they also pretended to be victims and provided accounts to their friends to receive virtual coins.
The coin-stealing gang has a clear division of labor. The boss He Moumou (handled in another case) is responsible for providing funds for renting houses, renting servers, purchasing computers and Trojan horse programs, and paying other people's wages; Su Moumou is responsible for command and specific operations, including recruiting people, assigning tasks, etc. Others are responsible for logging in to the victim's account remotely, forwarding the coin laundering address, etc.
Mr. Xu, a Ningbo citizen, is the victim. In December 2021, Mr. Xu found that more than 1.61 million Tether coins were missing from his account. A few days later, Mr. Xu contacted a friend through a software to ask for virtual coins. After sending the coin receiving address to the friend, he still did not receive it. He asked the other party but was told that the virtual currency had already been transferred. Mr. Xu checked the chat records and found that the account had been replaced long ago, and his friend's virtual currency was directly transferred into the account of the currency theft gang. Only then did Mr. Xu realize that his account had been stolen.
It turned out that after Su Moumou invaded Mr. Xu's computer, he also monitored his activities in real time. Once he monitored the chat records between Mr. Xu and his friends involving virtual currency transactions, he logged into Mr. Xu's chat account remotely and replaced the virtual currency account. A total of more than 3.98 million Tether coins and 100 Ethereum coins were received from the victim’s friends. In addition, Su Moumou and others also took the initiative and "borrowed" 100,000 Tether coins from another friend of his, pretending to be Mr. Xu.
The procuratorial organ determined that He Moumou used virtual currency to cash out a total of 28 million yuan.
After the incident, the public security agency recovered some virtual coins by freezing the receiving account.He Moumou took the initiative to compensate Mr. Xu 15 million yuan and was forgiven by the other party. Other defendants also refunded their illegal gains in full and compensated the victims for their losses.
The case was prosecuted by the Jiangbei Procuratorate. The court recently sentenced the accomplice Su Moumou to four years and ten months in prison for the crime of theft. The other six criminal gang members were each sentenced to three years in prison, with probation ranging from three years, six months to five years. .
