Crime & Safety

Joliet Man Loses All His Bitcoin After Fraudster Hijacks His Phone

All of a Joliet man's Bitcoin went poof, gone, vanished, after a hacker got into his accounts and drained the cryptocurrency.

CHICAGO (CBS) — In late May, Phil noticed his phone wasn’t working. So he used another phone to call his provider, Boost Mobile. “They tell me that, oh, we see that you transferred to T-Mobile,” Michno said.

That was news to him. But then came another surprise — he couldn’t get onto his account with a cryptocurrency exchange called Coinbase.

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