HE WAS 15 YEARS OLD, PLAYING CALL OF DUTY IN HIS ROOM, AND HE STOLE 24 MILLION DOLLARS IN CRYPTO FROM A MOGUL.
Ellis Pinsky seemed like the typical teenager from a wealthy neighborhood in New York. He went to school, played video games, and had dinner with his mother, who was a doctor.
But at night, in his room, he was the leader of a cyber gang.
At 15 years old, Ellis perfected the technique of "SIM swapping" (cloning phone SIM cards). In 2018, he set his sights on Michael Terpin, a famous cryptocurrency mogul.
Without leaving his room, Ellis managed to trick the phone company, cloned Terpin's number, accessed his accounts, and stole 24 million dollars in cryptocurrencies in a matter of minutes.
While Terpin panicked at seeing his account drained, Ellis was buying Rolex watches worth 100,000 dollars and secretly living a double life. Everything collapsed when the digital trail led the police to his house in the suburbs. His mother nearly fainted when the federal agents knocked on the door looking for her "boy".
Do you think a 15-year-old teenager is a criminal genius aware of what he is doing, or just a kid playing with a broken system?
#ETHTrendAnalysis #HarvardAddsETHExposure #TrumpNewTariffs
Ellis Pinsky seemed like the typical teenager from a wealthy neighborhood in New York. He went to school, played video games, and had dinner with his mother, who was a doctor.
But at night, in his room, he was the leader of a cyber gang.
At 15 years old, Ellis perfected the technique of "SIM swapping" (cloning phone SIM cards). In 2018, he set his sights on Michael Terpin, a famous cryptocurrency mogul.
Without leaving his room, Ellis managed to trick the phone company, cloned Terpin's number, accessed his accounts, and stole 24 million dollars in cryptocurrencies in a matter of minutes.
While Terpin panicked at seeing his account drained, Ellis was buying Rolex watches worth 100,000 dollars and secretly living a double life. Everything collapsed when the digital trail led the police to his house in the suburbs. His mother nearly fainted when the federal agents knocked on the door looking for her "boy".
Do you think a 15-year-old teenager is a criminal genius aware of what he is doing, or just a kid playing with a broken system?
#ETHTrendAnalysis #HarvardAddsETHExposure #TrumpNewTariffs