Law enforcement agencies in the County of Bucks (Pennsylvania) are faced with an unusual case. While investigating the theft of laptops, law enforcement officers «accidentally» stumbled on a fraudulent scheme with bitcoins in the amount of $40 million.
In the view of militiamen have caught 30-the summer jobless Theodore Price. The parents of his girlfriend said the theft of laptops from their home. After returning from vacation, wife Janine and Steve Aversa noticed that their home was missing two laptops, and their first suspicion fell on price. They reported about it to his daughter Morton. The girl initially asked price if he knew where the laptops, to which the latter said that has nothing to do with their disappearance irrelevant. Not believing, she went to the house of the boyfriend and the one missing laptop and also a bag in which were credit cards in the name of her father, grandmother and ex-boyfriend. Second laptop the girl also found it was sold out the price list in one of the shops used equipment for $ 150. With his findings, Morton went to the police.
Arrived in the police Jeannine Aversa confirmed that the found daughter in the house price, the laptop belongs to her. However, when the woman turned it on, found that the presence of new software that she had never been installed. Among other things on the laptop was installed the Tor browser, anonymous tool deep navigation network.
Police also found «105 pages alphanumeric code», which, as it turned out, were connected with the accounts of bitcoins and electronic wallets. During a search of the home of price’s last in everything and confessed.
During the interrogation, Price told investigators that he did steal millions of dollars in bitcoins, an online currency that is often used for illegal transactions on the Internet. Arrogant hacker claimed that he earned about 40 million dollars in online tender. In the beginning, claimed Price, he completed the translation in bitcoins for various companies using software purchased in Alpha Bay for $ 50, but then was able to create a program that helped him transfer money to your personal wallet. The program has actually changed the wallet is a necessary recipient with a wallet of the price. At the same time, the sender of the substitution track could not. While the information is not officially confirmed an investigation is under way, but as a precaution, the government blocked amount received at the electronic wallet price and according to preliminary data obtained by illegal means.
