A Swedish court has sentenced a man to six and a half years in prison
after he sent a "potentially lethal homemade bomb” to a U.K .-based
crypto firm, BBC reports today, Nov. 9.
Jermu Michael Salonen, 43, faced several charges in the Stockholm
District Court, including sending a bomb to Cryptopay employees in
London, and mailing a white powder to Swedish politicians —
including the prime minister.
Salonen was allegedly attempting to take revenge on the firm for
refusing to change his password on the Cryptopay platform in August
2017. As BBC reports, Cryptopay refused the request, as such a change
would contravene company policy.
Salonen sent an explosive device in a padded envelope addressed to two
Cryptopay employee’s in Hackney, London in November 2017, and the
package was delivered to an accounting firm previously used by
Cryptopay.
Several months later in March 2018, a worker at the office began
opening the package, but stopped when he became suspicious of the
contents. The package was referred to the Met Police Counter
Terrorism Command who forwarded DNA information from the bomb to
Interpol, alerting Swedish authorities to Salonen’s activities.
According to BBC, Salonen was already known to Swedish police.
Founded in late 2014, Cryptopay is a Bitcoin ( BTC ) wallet, debit card
service, and exchange for U.K. and European Union clients. Cryptopay
co-founder George Basiladze told Cointelegraph that the firm had
changed offices a “few months before the parcel was delivered.” No
one was hurt in the incident, and “none of [Cryptopay’s] employees
have ever worked at that address.”
Following the recent news, Cryptopay subsequently tweeted that
resetting a password is “no problem,” in case it is forgotten:
Source: Cryptopay Twitter
On Oct. 31, a number of firms in Amsterdam faced another case of
crypto extortion by email, with an anonymous individual threatening
an attack with hand grenades if they did not send 50,000 euro
($57,000) to his Bitcoin wallet.
Earlier this year, Cointelegraph reported that Russian crypto blogger
and trader Pavel Nyashin has been found dead in his apartment in
Saint Petersburg. Nyashin had been previously assaulted, when
attackers stole around $425,000 in cash after he boasted of his crypto
wealth online. While an investigation was opened subsequently in May,
there is still no news on the matter.
after he sent a "potentially lethal homemade bomb” to a U.K .-based
crypto firm, BBC reports today, Nov. 9.
Jermu Michael Salonen, 43, faced several charges in the Stockholm
District Court, including sending a bomb to Cryptopay employees in
London, and mailing a white powder to Swedish politicians —
including the prime minister.
Salonen was allegedly attempting to take revenge on the firm for
refusing to change his password on the Cryptopay platform in August
2017. As BBC reports, Cryptopay refused the request, as such a change
would contravene company policy.
Salonen sent an explosive device in a padded envelope addressed to two
Cryptopay employee’s in Hackney, London in November 2017, and the
package was delivered to an accounting firm previously used by
Cryptopay.
Several months later in March 2018, a worker at the office began
opening the package, but stopped when he became suspicious of the
contents. The package was referred to the Met Police Counter
Terrorism Command who forwarded DNA information from the bomb to
Interpol, alerting Swedish authorities to Salonen’s activities.
According to BBC, Salonen was already known to Swedish police.
Founded in late 2014, Cryptopay is a Bitcoin ( BTC ) wallet, debit card
service, and exchange for U.K. and European Union clients. Cryptopay
co-founder George Basiladze told Cointelegraph that the firm had
changed offices a “few months before the parcel was delivered.” No
one was hurt in the incident, and “none of [Cryptopay’s] employees
have ever worked at that address.”
Following the recent news, Cryptopay subsequently tweeted that
resetting a password is “no problem,” in case it is forgotten:
Source: Cryptopay Twitter
On Oct. 31, a number of firms in Amsterdam faced another case of
crypto extortion by email, with an anonymous individual threatening
an attack with hand grenades if they did not send 50,000 euro
($57,000) to his Bitcoin wallet.
Earlier this year, Cointelegraph reported that Russian crypto blogger
and trader Pavel Nyashin has been found dead in his apartment in
Saint Petersburg. Nyashin had been previously assaulted, when
attackers stole around $425,000 in cash after he boasted of his crypto
wealth online. While an investigation was opened subsequently in May,
there is still no news on the matter.
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