Grant West stole customer details from Argos, Asda, Sainsbury's and dozens of other companies in the UK and abroad.
A hacker who carried out cyber attacks on dozens of firms including Sainsbury's and Uber while living at a caravan park in Kent has been ordered to pay back more than £900,000 in cryptocurrency he had stashed away.
Grant West has been ordered to pay back £922,978.14 after police confiscated his stolen funds following a two-year investigation dubbed Operation Draba. The 27-year-old, of Ashford Caravan Park in Sheerness, operated on the dark web under the moniker of Courvoisier and carried out attacks on dozens of firms - mainly using phishing emails to secure the financial details of tens of thousands of customers, before selling them on different illegal marketplaces.All of the profit he made was converted into cryptocurrency and stored in multiple accounts.
West was jailed for 10 years and eight months last May after being arrested in September 2017, with officers identifying him as the head of an organised crime network that mainly targeted London-based organisations.Among the companies he stole customer details from were Argos, Nectar, Ladbrokes, Coral Betting, Uber and Groupon, plus the supermarkets Asda and Sainsbury's, and health group the British Cardiovascular Society.
He started trading on the dark web in March 2015 and completed more than 47,000 sales from a fake online store, and also sold cannabis and guides on how others could carry out cyber attacks.
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