SIM swap, cryptocurrency busts highlight new frontier for US tech cops


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 12 Sep 2018

Standing near the LAX security check, Santa Clara County Sheriff's Sgt Samy Tarazi waited for the suspected bitcoin thief to emerge. 

He had been tracking the 20-year-old Boston college student for months and now Tarazi and his team were about to make one of the first arrests of its kind in the country. 

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