Hacker caught with â¹4.5 crore of Bitcoin, 8 crore passwords
London police have seized about â¹4.5 crore worth of Bitcoin from a computer hacker in a case described as the first of its kind for the 188-year-old department. Officers also recovered a memory card containing 7.8 crore usernames and passwords. The 26-year-old was sentenced to 10 years in prison for attacking 100 companies worldwide and selling their data for Bitcoin.