Middle District of Florida | Palm Coast Hacker Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison

(*10*)Jacksonville, Florida – Senior U.S. District Choose Harvey E. Schlesinger has sentenced Noah Michael City (20, Palm Coast), a/ok/a “King Bob,” “Sosa,” “Elijah,” and “Gustavo Fring,” to 10 years in federal jail for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and aggravated identification theft. The court docket additionally ordered City to forfeit roughly $4.8 million in property, which incorporates cryptocurrency and different property. City was additionally ordered to pay $13 million in restitution. City entered a responsible plea on April 4, 2025.

(*10*)In line with court docket paperwork, from August 2022 via March of 2023, City was concerned in stealing cryptocurrency from at the very least 59 victims throughout the USA. City and others carried out focused assaults referred to as “SIM swaps,” to acquire victims’ private identification data (PII). As soon as City obtained victims’ PII, he hacked into their cryptocurrency accounts on-line and stole their cryptocurrency.

(*10*)Throughout this identical timeframe, City was additionally half of a gaggle that focused workers of corporations nationwide with phishing textual content messages. The harvested worker credentials had been then used to log in and steal personal firm knowledge and data. The group additionally used stolen data obtained from sufferer firm intrusions, leaked knowledge units, and different sources to realize unauthorized entry to quite a few people’ cryptocurrency accounts and wallets and steal thousands and thousands of {dollars} of digital foreign money.

(*10*)The FBI served a search warrant on City’s residence and located proof on City’s pc linking him to the victims’ e mail accounts and cryptocurrency wallets. In addition, cryptocurrency totaling roughly $4.8 million from the victims’ stolen accounts was discovered on City’s gadgets. The whole loss to the victims was over $13 million.       

(*10*)This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Lawyer John Cannizzaro of the Middle District of Florida and Assistant United States Lawyer Lauren Restrepo of the Central District of California.