{"id":220575,"date":"2025-08-21T04:25:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T09:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/scattered-spider-hacker-gets-10-years-13m-restitution-for-sim-swapping-crypto-theft"},"modified":"2025-08-21T04:25:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T09:25:56","slug":"scattered-spider-hacker-gets-10-years-13m-restitution-for-sim-swapping-crypto-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/scattered-spider-hacker-gets-10-years-13m-restitution-for-sim-swapping-crypto-theft","title":{"rendered":"Scattered Spider Hacker Gets 10 Years, $13M Restitution for SIM Swapping Crypto Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scattered-spider-hacker-gets-10-years-13m-restitution-for-sim-swapping-crypto-theft2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A 20-year-old member of the notorious cybercrime gang known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ic3.gov\/CSA\/2023\/231116.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scattered Spider<\/a> has been sentenced to ten years in prison in the U.S. in connection with a series of major hacks and cryptocurrency thefts.<\/p>\n<p>Noah Michael Urban <a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/05\/us-charges-yemeni-hacker-behind-black.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pleaded guilty<\/a> to charges related to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft back in April 2025. News of Urban\u2019s sentencing was reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-08-20\/scattered-spider-member-sentenced-to-10-years-in-string-of-hacks\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg<\/a> and Jacksonville news outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2025\/08\/20\/palm-coast-man-linked-to-scattered-spider-cybercrime-gang-sentenced-to-10-years-for-cryptocurrency-theft\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News4JAX<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, 120 months in federal prison, Urban faces an additional three years of supervised release and has been ordered to pay $13 million in restitution to victims. In a statement <a href=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2025\/08\/sim-swapper-scattered-spider-hacker-gets-10-years\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shared<\/a> with security journalist Brian Krebs, Urban called the sentence unjust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 20-year-old member of the notorious cybercrime gang known as Scattered Spider has been sentenced to ten years in prison in the U.S. in connection with a series of major hacks and cryptocurrency thefts. Noah Michael Urban pleaded guilty to charges related to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft back in April 2025. News of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1761,34,1493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrencies","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-law-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}