Infamous Leaker Noah “King Bob” Urban Gets 10 Years In Prison

Noah “King Bob” City was sentenced to 10 years in jail on Wednesday after pleading responsible to wire fraud and aggravated identification theft prices. Between 2022 and 2023, City allegedly stole a number of victims’ private data by way of a course of often known as “SIM swapping.” This concerned rerouting different individuals’s cellphone numbers to his personal units, which might then permit him to entry their wallets.

A minimum of 5 totally different victims have been robbed of $800,000 in cryptocurrency. Authorities say he used a number of aliases along with “King Bob,” together with “Sosa,” “Elijah,” and “Anthony Ramirez.”

In response to Complicated, City is alleged to be a member of the group Scattered Spider. The group has made headlines previously for allegedly leaking unreleased music from various widespread artists. They embrace Playboi Carti and Lil Uzi Vert.

Authorities initially arrested City again in January 2024. This April, he pleaded responsible in two federal circumstances, one from Florida and one from California. For the case in Florida, he pleaded responsible to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and aggravated identification theft. In California, he pleaded responsible to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Along with his time behind bars, City should serve three years of supervised launch and pay $13 million in restitution to a complete of 59 victims.

As for Scattered Spider, the group is believed to be comprised of teenage and younger grownup hackers. In response to a Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) put out by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Safety Company (CISA), they aim giant corporations and their contracted data expertise assist desks, and have allegedly engaged in information theft for extortion, amongst different felony actions.

The group’s members “are thought of consultants in social engineering and use a number of social engineering methods, particularly phishing, push bombing, and subscriber identification module (SIM) swap assaults, to acquire credentials, set up distant entry instruments, and/or bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA).”