A notorious hacking gang known as Scattered Spider just lost one of its legs. A member of the criminal organization, Florida man Noah Urban, was sentenced to ten years in prison by a federal judge in Jacksonville over Urban’s participation in dozens of hacking efforts that targeted individuals and companies to steal cryptocurrency, according to a report from Bloomberg.

Urban, a 20-year-old from Palm Coast, Florida, was arrested in 2024 and charged with wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, to which he pleaded guilty earlier this year . Prosecutors allege that he was involved in the targeting and victimization of 29 cryptocurrency victims and 13 companies. They also recovered about $2.9 million worth of cryptocurrency from Urban’s computer, which was seized during a raid on his home

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