A 20-year-old college student that has stolen more than $5 million worth of cryptocurrency through SIM swapping attacks gets a 10 years jail sentence. College student accepted a sentence of 10 years in prison for SIM hijacking attacks against at least 40 victims. Ortiz was arrested last year on charges of hijacking victims phone numbers and stealing millions of dollars in cryptocurrency. Ortiz accepted a plea deal for 10 years last week, the official sentencing is set to take place on March 14th. Ortiz is the first hacker that was condemned to the jail for SIM swapping.”]
Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/80660/cyber-crime/sim-swapping-hacker-sentence.html

