Police in California have arrested a 19-year-old hacker who used stolen phones to cryptocurrency. According Krebs on Security, a blog about cybercrime investigations, the teenager was awarded BTC in the amount of $1 million.

To implement the scheme, the suspect, 19-year-old Javier Narvaez (Xzavyer Narvaez), used the service to transfer your phone number from the SIM card of other operators. Data SIM card Nerves activated in the devices of the victims and withdrawal of funds installed on the smartphone wallets. Such an operation is a criminal and his accomplice (name not mentioned) was carried out for several years. Cryptocurrency teenagers used to purchase premium cars.

In the period from March to June of this year through the account of Narvasa on Bittrex passed 157 BTC (~$1 009 000). The police also failed to establish that the fraudster used the Converter Bitpay payments when buying a car brand McLaren at the salon, located in southern California.

The offender was caught only after he made the mistake of using the same device for two weeks at 28 processing transfers.

In its report, the task force emphasized that during the investigation they had details to trace the transaction on the Bitcoin blockchain in order to “track the source of the BTC used to buy the McLaren”. In addition, “Bitpay has provided an identification transaction recording.”

This week has held a lot of arrests related to cryptocurrency scams. On Monday, Chinese police also arrested a group of hackers who misappropriated the deposits of the cryptocurrency.