Elliott Gunton and his alleged accomplice Anthony Nashatka, working under the aliases Planet and Psycho, took an untold amount of money from their victims.
In charges filed in San Francisco by the U.S. Department of Justice, Gunton, along with Anthony Nashatka, an American, stand accused of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. The pair allegedly defrauded customers of EtherDelta, a currency exchange site, after hacking the site's web host, Cloudshare, from December 13-26, 2017.
A digital illustration of a thumbprint. A teenage U.K. hacker was accused by the US Government of stealing thousands of dollars from memers of a cryptocurrency exchange website in 2017.In August, Gunton pleaded guilty to five charges including computer misuse and money laundering, and hacking into Australian internet service provider Telstra, which allowed him to take control of high-profile, high-follower-count Instagram accounts and sell them at a high price on hacker forums.
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