Tagged: grant west

August 28, 2019 @ 1:34 pm By Cali Haan  |  

A judge in Southwark, England, has seized $900 000 in Bitcoins from confessed prolific hacker Grant West, 27, once described as a “one-man cybercrime wave,” The Guardian reports. The judge reportedly warned West that he would face an additional four years in prison if he… Read More

May 4, 2018 @ 11:48 am By Cali Haan  |  

In what is being lauded as Scotland Yard’s first successful prosecution of cybercrime, a British hacker has been convicted of multiple charges related to the theft of millions of people’s personal data. Grant West, 26, was arrested in the first class section of a passenger… Read More