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A 22-year-old British man is facing extradition to the US in a case accusing him of stealing bitcoin as part of a wider hacking ring, according to a Bloomberg report Tuesday.
A ring of hackers called the «The Community» allegedly hijacked the identities of US citizens to steal more than $50 million in cryptocurrencies between 2017 and 2018. Corey De Rose is facing extradition as he is being accused of aiding in the hack of an American man's crypto wallet in 2017, when De Rose was 18.
US lawyers at a London court hearing on Monday said he helped transfer crypto from the man's digital wallet to himself and his co-conspirators. De Rose was accused of receiving 108.18 bitcoins in the theft. The digital currency was
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