Notorious NFT Bandit Sentenced: How Hacked X Accounts Fueled a Crypto Heist Spree
Another day, another crypto criminal learns the hard way that blockchain breadcrumbs are harder to erase than a drunken tweet. A serial scammer just got slapped with prison time for running a digital loot train—hijacking high-profile X accounts to swipe NFTs and crypto like some Web3 Robin Hood (minus the altruism and plus a federal rap sheet).
The 21st-century stickup artist turned verified checkmarks into personal ATMs, proving once again that where there's speculative money, there are vultures circling. The case highlights the ugly truth: crypto's wild west days aren't over—they've just upgraded their phishing kits.
And in a twist that'll shock nobody, the stolen assets' value probably fluctuated more during the trial than the scammer's prison sentence. Some things never change—neither do the 'security tips' we all ignore until it's our wallet getting drained.
