Heather Morgan, duab, pov nws tus kheej ua tus kws tshaj lij hauv "email txias" - kev sib txuas lus tsis xav tau - thiab tshaj tawm ntau ntau cov yeeb yaj kiab rap yog nws tau txais nws hloov pauv, Razzlekhan.
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Ilya "Dutch" Lichtenstein tau txais nyiaj los ntawm Mark Cuban thiab lwm tus neeg ua lag luam paub zoo. Nws tus poj niam, Heather Morgan, tau tsim cov hauv qab no raws li tus neeg rapper quirky thiab social media luminary.
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HEather Morgan thiab nws tus txiv, Ilya "Dutch" Lichtenstein, zoo li ua rau lub neej muaj kev vam meej ua cov lag luam thev naus laus zis thiab cov thawj coj xav. Lichtenstein tau nqis peev hauv kev pib ua haujlwm nrog hnyav hnyav xws li Marc Benioff thiab tau pib nws lub tuam txhab txhawb nqa los ntawm Mark Cuban. Morgan tau tsim nws tus kheej ua tus thawj coj kev xav zoo tshaj plaws, tshaj tawm cov xov xwm hauv online txog cov poj niam hauv kev coj noj coj ua, thiab txawm tias muaj kev hloov pauv ntawm lub neej raws li YouTube rapper hu ua Razzlekhan, uas tham txog kev ua tiav thiab nyiaj txiag.
Tab sis lawv muaj qhov zais cia, raws li cov neeg tshawb xyuas nrog IRS. Morgan, 31, thiab nws tus txiv, Lichtenstein, 34, raug ntes hauv New York rau hnub Tuesday thiab raug foob nrog sim ntxhua khaub ncaws $ 3.6 nphom hauv bitcoin nyiag los ntawm hackers los ntawm Bitfinex pauv rau xyoo dhau los. Yog tias raug txiav txim rau lawv, txhua tus tuaj yeem raug kaw txog 25 xyoo. Cov ntaub ntawv hauv tsev hais plaub unsealed lub lim tiam no piav qhia txog cov txheej txheem nthuav dav rau ntxhua khaub ncaws thiab zais lub hauv paus pib ntawm tus nyiag bitcoins. Lichtenstein thiab Morgan tsis raug them nrog kev ua txhaum cai.
Forbes pom tias raws li cov khub tau liam tias siv lub hnab nyiaj digital los ntxhua khaub ncaws cryptocurrency, lawv ib txhij tsim lawv tus kheej ua tus tsim ua lag luam, nqis peev hauv tuam txhab ua ke thiab, hauv Morgan qhov teeb meem, tsim nws tus kheej li kev tshaj xov xwm tus kheej.
Illya Lichtenstein, 34, thiab Heather Morgan, 31, duab hauv mugshots, raug ntes hauv Manhattan hnub Tuesday Lub Ob Hlis 8, 2022.
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Txij li thaum lub rooj sib tham txog kaum xyoo dhau los, ob leeg tau ua haujlwm hnyav kom tau txais lub hauv paus hauv Silicon Valley thiab New York tech voj voog. Lichtenstein tau ua tiav los ntawm kev ua lag luam ua tsis tiav, suav nrog kev khiav Ron Paul kiv cua lub vev xaib thiab teeb tsa lub hlwb txhawb kev lag luam ua ntej sib koom ua lag luam MixRank, tam sim no yog lub tuam txhab muag khoom muag thiab kev lag luam. Lichtenstein tshuav MixRank sai sai hauv 2016, tib lub xyoo uas Bitfinex raug nyiag lawm.
Lub sijhawm ntawd, Morgan tau tso nws tus kheej los ua tus kws tshaj lij hauv "email txias" - kev sib txuas lus tsis xav tau - thiab hais txog qhov ntawd rau hauv kev sau ntawv gigs thiab tshwm sim ntawm cov rooj sib tham muag.
Travis Lybbert, University of California, Davis tus kws tshaj lij kev lag luam, uas ntiav Morgan ua tus pab tshawb fawb hauv 2011 hais tias "Nws tau dhau los ua tus neeg ua haujlwm zoo tab sis tsis tau ua ib txoj hauv kev uas ua rau muaj kev cia siab," kev tshaj lij, leej twg yuav nrhiav sijhawm thiab tsim lawv. "
Pcov neeg uas paub ob niam txiv hais tias lawv xav tsis thoob los ntawm kev ntes. Lybbert, hauv kev sib tham hauv xov tooj nrog Forbes, hais tias Morgan tau ua ib tug tub kawm ntawv cog lus uas nws nkag siab txog Middle East yog qhov zoo siab heev. Nws "tau txais ib qho chaw" ua tus kws sau ntawv ntawm tshooj phau ntawv kawm uas lawv tau sau ua ke, nws tau hais tias: "Cov Lus Qhia los ntawm Arab Spring: Kev Nyab Xeeb Khoom Noj thiab Kev Nyab Xeeb hauv Middle East thiab North Africa."
Tus xibfwb tau hais tias nws tau hais lus qhua hauv Morgan cov chav kawm thaum nws tseem yog menyuam kawm ntawv ntawm UC Davis, thiab nws tau mus cuag nws tom qab, tom qab nws kawm tiav, nrhiav kev tshawb fawb uas tuaj yeem pab nws "kev kawm tiav hauv kev lag luam, tshwj xeeb tshaj yog thoob ntiaj teb. thiab kev loj hlob economics. "
Lybbert tau hais tias "Nws ib txwm tab tom nrhiav rau lwm yam thiab muaj kev cia siab tiag tiag rau qhov nws xav ua haujlwm," Lybbert hais.
Lybbert kuj tau hais tias thaum nws thiab Morgan tau ua haujlwm ua ke hauv 2011 thiab 2012, Morgan tau mob siab rau thiab tsis khoom. Tom qab kawm tiav los ntawm UC Davis, nws tau mus rau Hong Kong, qhov chaw nws ua haujlwm ua tus npaj kev tshwm sim, thaum tseem tab tom thov rau kev kawm tiav hauv kev lag luam thiab pib nws lub tuam txhab kev pab tswv yim luam ntawv, SalesFolk, Lybbert tau hais.
Raws li Morgan nplooj ntawv LinkedIn, nws tau tsiv tawm ntawm Hong Kong mus rau Cairo, qhov chaw nws kawm tiav qib siab hauv kev lag luam thiab kev loj hlob thoob ntiaj teb ntawm American University. Morgan rov qab mus rau California hauv 2013 thiab tau ua haujlwm nrog ib lub tuam txhab hu ua Tamatem Inc., tus tshaj tawm lus Arabic-kev ua si, uas tau tsim nyob rau hauv 500 Startups. Nyob rau tib lub sijhawm, Morgan launched SalesFolk. Cov ntawv luam ntawm nws lub vev xaib txij Lub Rau Hli 2013 piav qhia nws tias yog "kev tshuaj ntsuam xyuas ninja," "tus kws sau ntawv tshaj tawm," thiab muaj xya xyoo ntawm kev sau ntawv.
Nws zoo nkaus li nws hla txoj hauv kev nrog Lichtenstein ib puag ncig lub sijhawm no. Cov ntawv pov thawj hauv qab ntawm nws lub vev xaib Salesfolk yog cov lus hais los ntawm Lichtenstein, uas tau muab nws cov kev pabcuam zoo saib xyuas, hu nws "kev mob siab, ci ntsa iab, thiab laser tsom," thiab ntxiv tias "ib teev ntawm kev tawm tswv yim nrog Heather them. rau nws tus kheej tam sim ntawd. "
Hauv 2014, Morgan pib blogging ntawm nws tus kheej qhov chaw, econgoat.com, qhov chaw uas nws tau piav qhia nws tus kheej tias yog "tus kws tshaj lij nyiaj txiag tsis txaj muag hauv pearls." Hauv kev tshaj tawm rau lub Plaub Hlis 14, 2014, nws tau sau tias: "Txawm hais tias kuv tus cwj pwm nyiam kev pheej hmoo yuav ua rau kuv muaj kev ntxhov siab ntau dua li cov neeg feem coob tuaj yeem ua tau, sib xyaw nrog qee qhov ua tsis tiav, nws kuj tau coj kuv mus rau kuv qhov kev yeej loj tshaj plaws." Ob peb lub hlis tom qab, Morgan xam phaj Lichtenstein rau nws tus kheej YouTube channel, nug nws txog nws lub tuam txhab, MixRank, hauv video hu ua "Tau koj thawj $ 1 lab hauv kev lag luam muag nrog xoom kev lag luam siv."
Txog tam sim no, Morgan tau txais kev lees paub dhau ntawm nws tus kheej lub vev xaib. Thaum Lub Yim Hli 2015, nws tau raug xam phaj hauv online los ntawm lub tuam txhab kev muag khoom software hu ua Ambition, uas tau piav qhia nws tias yog ib tus neeg uas "rewriting the playbook on txias email outreach for [software-as-a-service] tuam txhab thoob ntiaj teb." Brian Trautschold, tam sim no Ambition's COO, uas tau ua qhov kev xam phaj nrog Morgan, qhia kev poob siab tias nws tau raug liam tias yog tsoomfwv ua txhaum cai. Nws yog "vwm," nws hais Forbes hauv kev xam phaj hauv xov tooj. "Nws tau hais lus ntawm SaaS cov rooj sib tham thiab tsis muaj qhov qhia tau tias tus neeg ntawd tsis tau tsom mus rau kev sab laj ntawm email ...Nws yog qhov poob siab, xya-ntxiv rau xyoo tom qab, pom lwm sab ntawm zaj dab neeg zoo li tawm tuaj."
Ob peb lub hlis ua ntej Bitfinex hack thaum Lub Yim Hli 2016, Morgan tau los ua tus kws sau ntawv ywj pheej ntawm Inc. magazine, uas tau piav qhia nws tias tau mus ntawm "pw tsaug zog ntawm couches los tsim ib lub lag luam xya-daim duab hu ua SalesFolk." Xyoo tom ntej, nws kuj tau los ua tus pab txhawb rau ForbesWomen tshooj ntawm Forbes.com, qhov uas nws tau tshaj tawm cov lus hais txog cov ncauj lus xws li suab paj nruag mus rau zaub mov. Hauv ib daim ntawv tshaj tawm, Morgan tau tham txog yuav ua li cas nws muaj kev hais lus tsis txaus siab loj hlob thiab raug thab plaub los ntawm lwm tus tub ntxhais kawm hauv tsev kawm.
Hauv 2019 ntawd Forbes tshaj tawm, nws hais txog cov teeb meem kev cai lij choj yav dhau los: Nws tau sau tias thaum lub sijhawm ua lag luam mus rau Asia, nws tau txais "kev hem thawj raug cai", tau kawm tias nws cov neeg ua haujlwm tau "fudging tus lej," thiab raug thab plaub los ntawm cov phooj ywg ntev. Forbes tshem tawm nws los ua tus pabcuam thaum lub Cuaj Hlis 2021 thaum lub sijhawm tshuaj xyuas ib nrab xyoo.
Nws yog vim muaj kev poob haujlwm zoo li cov no, nws tau sau rau hauv Forbes tshaj tawm, tias nws tau txiav txim siab los ua tus rapper, siv lub npe Razzlekhan. Hauv kev tshaj tawm Instagram thaum Lub Ib Hlis 2019, Morgan hnav lub tsho tawv dub thaum lwm tus poj niam sawv tom qab nws. "Yog li qee tus neeg hauv ntiaj teb thev naus laus zis tau txhawj xeeb me ntsis txog kuv rapping thiab tsis paub tseeb tias kuv yuav tsum muaj cov nkauj rap, thiab qee cov neeg koom tes," nws hais. "Tab sis koj paub dab tsi, Kuv nco qab ib yam li ntau tus neeg qhia kuv kom tsis txhob muaj kev pheej hmoo, tsis txhob pib ua lag luam, tsis yog ua lag luam." Ntau ntawm Razzlekhan cov yeeb yaj kiab YouTube tau raug tso tseg lossis raug tshem tawm txij hnub Tuesday yav tsaus ntuj.
Morgan thiab Lichtenstein tau tshwm sim hauv lub rooj sib hais kaw hnub Tuesday ua ntej tsoomfwv tus kws txiav txim plaub ntug.
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Txij li thaum Bitfinex hack hauv 2016, nkawm niam txiv cov ntawv tshaj tawm hauv online qhia txog kev ua neej nyob. Morgan tau sau lawv lub dav hlau teeb tsa los ntawm Panama mus rau Malaysia thiab Mexico ntawm social media platforms.
Tib lub hlis qhov raug liam tias hack tau tshwm sim, Morgan tau tshaj tawm ib daim duab rau Instagram. Nws thiab Lichtenstein zaum ntawm lub rooj zaum xiav satin, luag. "Kuv ib txwm nyiam ntsib teeb meem nrog tus txiv neej vwm no," nws sau. "Ua tsaug rau ib txwm txhawb nqa kuv los ua tus lag luam zoo dua!"
Lichtenstein, rau nws ib feem, tau tsim nws tus kheej ua ib tug me nyuam yaus hauv New York tech peev hauv ntiaj teb, qhov twg, raws li Lub Tsev Haujlwm Saib Xyuas Kev Ncaj Ncees, nws tau nyob hauv ib chav tsev ntawm 75 Wall Street, ib qho thaiv tshwj xeeb uas lub tsev nyob ib txwm muaj nqi nce siab. ntawm $1 lab.
Nws yog ib daim duab ntawm kev vam meej uas nws tau tsim rau ib xyoo caum. Tom qab kawm tiav nrog ib qho tseem ceeb hauv kev puas siab puas ntsws los ntawm University of Wisconsin-Madison, Lichtenstein tau nrhiav cov neeg ua lag luam zoo li lub siab thiab mus rau Silicon Valley, qhov chaw nws tau ntsib lwm cov kws tshaj lij-libertarians, raws li nws txoj hauv kev ntawm tam sim no-tsis muaj lub vev xaib thiab kev lag luam txheeb xyuas los ntawm Forbes. Ib qho ntawm nws qhov chaw tseem ceeb tshaj plaws yog RonPaulFan.com, uas muaj cov kwj ntawm cov xov xwm thiab kev txhawb nqa rau ib zaug Republican tus thawj tswj hwm tus neeg sib tw uas tau los ua tus kws tshaj lij rau cryptocurrency. Raws li lub vev xaib banner, nws yog "# 1 qhov chaw rau txhua qhov xov xwm Ron Paul."
Lichtenstein tseem dabbled hauv kev muag cov tshuaj hlwb nyob ib puag ncig lub sijhawm no, thov kom tau tsim ib qho hu ua Instant Focus uas tau cog lus tias "turbocharge koj cov khoom tsim tau," uas nws tau hais tias pab nws "txoj cai ntev dua thiab ua tau zoo dua" hauv kev tshaj tawm ntawm Hacker Xov Xwm Lub Kaum Hli 2010. . Nws kuj tau tshaj tawm qhov chaw poob phaus, suav nrog MyNaturalWeightLossDiet.com, uas tau thawb txoj hnyuv plab thiab cov tshuaj acai, thiab dab tsi tshwm sim yog cov vev xaib sib tham, adultfriendgrinder.com thiab findgeekgirls.com.
Thaum cov tuam txhab lag luam tsis tuaj yeem tawm hauv av, nws pom muaj kev vam meej ntau dua li co-founder ntawm MixRank, cov ntaub ntawv-driven-marketing startup, uas tau txais rau hauv Y Combinator accelerator program hauv 2011. Thaum lub sij hawm, Lichtenstein tau sim tsim. nws tus kheej yog Silicon Valley xav tus thawj coj, nyob rau hauv ib lub blog muaj cai Influence Hacks. Hauv ib tsab ntawv nws tau sau tias, "Tus nqi ntawm cov nyiaj koj ua tsis muaj dab tsi cuam tshuam nrog koj ua haujlwm hnyav npaum li cas ... Qhov khoom plig tiag tiag yog RISK."
Ntawm cov neeg txhawb nqa MixRank thaum ntxov yog billionaire investor Mark Cuban thiab 500 Startups venture peev peev, raws li Pitchbook, tab sis ob leeg muag lawv cov ceg txheem ntseeg rau tus neeg yuav khoom tsis tau qhia qee lub sijhawm ntawm 2012 thiab 2015. MixRank lwm tus tsim, Scott Milliken, tsis teb tam sim ntawd rau kev thov. rau kev tawm tswv yim thaum lub sijhawm tshaj tawm. Hauv email, Cuban tau hais tias nws "tsis tau ntsib" Lichtenstein.
Tom qab ntawd, Lichtenstein tau tsim lub tuam txhab blockchain-based cybersecurity hu ua Endpass thiab kev lag luam peev hu ua DemandPath, nrog rau Morgan. Tsuas yog tshaj li kaum xyoo, nws kuj tau nqis peev hauv kev pib ua lag luam. Cov no suav nrog Routable, qhov chaw uas nws yog tus tubtxib saum ntuj ua lag luam nrog ntau tshaj li kaum ob tus neeg ua lag luam, suav nrog billionaire Bay Area hnyav hnyav xws li Scott Belsky, Box tus tsim Aaron Levie thiab Salesforce tus tsim thiab co-CEO Marc Benioff. Tsis muaj qhov qhia tias Lichtenstein paub lossis sib txuas lus nrog lwm tus tub ua lag luam.
Hauv ib tsab ntawv LinkedIn los ntawm 2021, Lichtenstein tau sau tias nws "zoo siab heev uas tau ua tus thawj coj ua lag luam hauv Routable." Omri Mor, cofounder thiab CEO ntawm Routable teb, "Zoo siab tau muaj koj nrog peb txij thaum pib." Mor tsis teb rau kev thov tawm tswv yim.
Lichtenstein tsis tau ze li qhov muaj txiaj ntsig ntawm kev tshaj xov xwm zoo li nws tus poj niam. Ntau xyoo dhau los, nws tus account Twitter tau nyob ntsiag to ze li ntawm xya xyoo, txij li xyoo 2013 txog 2020. Tab sis thaum Lub Ib Hlis 2021, nws yws yws txog qhov nws hu ua "#BigTechCensorship” Lub hli tas los, nws tau coj lub hom phiaj ntawm venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, teeb taws nws tshaj ib tug meme nws tso. "Yuav ua li cas tsiaj qus uas billionaires uas tuaj yeem ua txhua yam hauv ntiaj teb xaiv qhov tseem ceeb tshaj tawm tus nqi thib ob hauv Twitter?"
Hu xov tooj, Liechtenstein txiv, Yevgeniy Lichtenstein, tsis kam hais txog nws tus tub qhov xwm txheej. "Kuv tsis xav tham txog nws, kuv thov txim," tus txwj laus Lichtenstein hais.
A 20-nplooj ntawv pov thawj sau los ntawm Christopher Janczewski, tus neeg sawv cev tshwj xeeb nrog Internal Revenue Service, liam Morgan thiab Lichtenstein ntawm kev txav cov neeg nyiag nkas bitcoins "los ntawm ntau txhiab kev lag luam mus rau ntau tshaj kaum tus account" hauv lawv lub npe thiab kev lag luam. Ib qho ntawm cov tuam txhab no yog SalesFolk, Morgan lub tuam txhab kev pab tswv yim luam ntawv, raws li daim ntawv lees paub.
Thaum Lub Rau Hli 2019, Morgan tau liam tias hloov tus kheej tus lej bitcoin rau tus account lag luam uas nws muaj nyob rau ntawm ib qho kev pauv pauv nyiaj virtual (tshwj xeeb hauv cov ntaub ntawv hauv tsev hais plaub li "VCE 7"), "kom tau txais kev tshuaj xyuas tsawg dua los ntawm VCE 7 txog nws cov kev lag luam xws li nws tau ua kua nws BTC ntau dua, "cov ntawv pov thawj nyeem.
Tab sis nws yog Lichtenstein siv cov huab cia nyiaj uas tau coj mus rau qhov kev tsis sib haum xeeb ntawm cov lus sib liam. Tsoomfwv tau txiav txim siab cov ntaub ntawv nyob rau ntawd uas muaj cov npe ntawm 2,000 virtual txiaj chaw nyob, nrog rau cov yuam sij ntiag tug. Yuav luag tag nrho cov chaw nyob tau txuas nrog Bitfinex heist, raws li Lub Tsev Haujlwm Saib Xyuas Kev Ncaj Ncees, uas tau hais tias lub crypto kuj dhau los ntawm cov chaw muaj los ntawm Morgan.
Lichtenstein thiab Morgan cov lus ntuas, Anirudh Bansal, tsis teb rau Forbes ' thov kom hais tawm.
Thaum lub rooj sib hais raug kaw hnub Tuesday ua ntej tsoomfwv tus kws txiav txim plaub ntug, Morgan thiab Lichtenstein raug txiav txim tso tawm ntawm daim ntawv cog lus, dhau ntawm cov kws lij choj tawm tsam. Cov kev tsis pom zoo suav nrog qhov tseeb tias Morgan tau liam tias "sim kaw nws lub xov tooj ntawm tes los tiv thaiv kev soj ntsuam kev cai lij choj" thiab tias nkawm khub " koom nrog kev ntxhua khaub ncaws nyuaj" ntawm qee qhov ntawm cov bitcoins nyiag los ntawm Bitfinex. Thaum kawg, txawm li cas los xij, Thawj Tswj Hwm Beryl Howell tau hais kom tus txiv thiab tus poj niam nyob hauv kev saib xyuas. Lub rooj sib hais tau teem sijhawm rau hnub Friday.
Thaum Lub Yim Hli 2019, Morgan tau hais qhia txog "Yuav ua li cas rau Social Engineer Koj Txoj Kev Mus Rau Txhua Yam" rau ib pawg hauv New York City. Thaum nug los ntawm cov neeg tuaj saib qhov twg txoj kab yuav tsum tau kos hauv social engineering, Morgan teb tias: "Kuv ntseeg tias qhov kawg ua kom pom tseeb rau qee zaum," nws hais. “Kuv lub hom phiaj kawg tsis yog phem lossis phem. Kuv tsis tau sim dag ib tug neeg tawm ntawm cov nyiaj los yog ua rau ib tug neeg raug mob nyob rau hauv ib txoj kev. "
Tau qhov twg los: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2022/02/09/heather-morgan-ilya-lichtenstein-bitcoin-seizure/