AT & t’s motion to dismiss, a 1.8-million-Dollar lawsuit was rejected
The two-time Emmy-winner Seth Shapiro had lost in October 2019, according to a SIM-Swap to attack crypto-assets in the amount of 1.8 million US dollars. Therefore, he filed a lawsuit in the same value.
A U.S. Federal judge allowed the suit because of the 1.8-million-USD-theft in crypto-currencies, however, and rejected the offer of the telecommunications company on rejection.
District judge Consuelo B. Marshall, from California, gave his decision in favour of action and process because of negligence on the part of the U.S. company can continue to run.
According to the plaintiff, Seth Shapiro, A& T has not prevented the SIM Swap attack and have taken so negligent a second attack, along with the associated theft of, and damage to the client.
In October 2019, Shapiro had filed in the Californian district court for the appropriate action. In it, he claims to be an employee of the company had allowed access to his mobile number, which is why in the Following its data accessible to and abused were
According to the court documents, Shapiro AT & T had already in may of this year to 2018, about a probable attack on his phone number in the knowledge set. To this end, he contacted a company employee, which Shapiro in spite of the mention of SIM-Swap activities promised that such problems “without his authorization” does not occur again would.
From the point of view of the plaintiff AT & T do not use adequate systems and procedures for data security. Shapiro also claims that the company employees, their additions to its with the target of malicious attacks abused to “him to blackmail and threaten.”
The Emmy award-double winner lost his wealth in crypto-currencies, as the Hacker exchanged his phone number. On another device, the offender then used the number to obtain access to highly sensitive data. With these the attacker could exchanges later convenient au crypto accounts on well-known Crypto-how
The two-time Emmy-winner lost his crypto-assets, as the attacker Shapiro’s phone number is successfully exchanged. The Hacker took advantage of it on a separate mobile phone and received access to highly sensitive data, which he received on his crypto accounts of major exchanges such as Coinbase, KuCoin, Bittrex, Huobi, HitBTC, or Bitfinex access.
In December 2019 aspired to AT & T by submitting an application to the court for the dismissal of the Case. The company filed in January a support request with the statement that Shapiro’s action for crypto theft, with a total volume of 1.8 million US dollars to be able to leave no responsibility to the company for any loss.
AT & T questioned fundamentally the accuracy of the allegations and described the accusations as erroneous, the offender would have received about Shapiro’s SIM number to be crypto assets. In particular, the company sees problems in the sense that it went first to the SIM number access, and only later to the loss in the millions.
Thanks to the decision of judge Judge Consuelo B. Marshall Shapiro now has to 29.05.2020 time, an amended Version of the complaint.
Here, it is far from the only lawsuit against the U.S. company in connection with the issue of SIM-Swap. Ex-crypto-Investor, for example, had sued AT & T in the year 2018 because of an attack by a Hacker at the age of 15, had stolen from him 23.8 million US dollars. Terpins compensation claim amounted at that time to “lush” 200 US dollars.
The now 18-year-old Hacker, Ellis Pinsky, he sued later, however, because of the first theft, damages of a whopping 71.4 million USD. Pinsky was paid two million dollars of the stolen money back. He is, however, suspected to be stored on so-called “Offshore accounts” more than 100 million USD.