BREAKING: Amazon Senior Security Engineer Indicted in $9M Crypto Heist
This guy wasn't smart. Not at all
This guy wasn't smart. Not at all
In a dramatic twist, Shakeeb Ahmed, 34, of Louisville, KY, was arrested in Manhattan and indicted today by the Department of Justice in the Southern District of New York for orchestrating a cryptocurrency heist worth millions which occurred last year.
Ahmed stands accused of illegally manipulating systems in yet another case involving alleged misuse of technical expertise by the type of person typically entrusted to protect them. The indictment paints a picture of a man who, instead of using his technical acumen as a Senior Security Engineer at Amazon to promote the security of digital assets, decided to exploit them for personal gain, and was determined to get away with it.
The case was described by US Attorney Damian Williams (Same lawyer behind the successful prosecution of Ghislaine Maxwell), on Twitter as "the first-ever criminal case involving an attack on a smart contract operated by a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange".
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