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Jeers suggest Republican presidential candidate faces a challenge in broadening his appeal

Donald Trump appealed for support from the fringe Libertarian Party on Saturday, telling a rowdy crowd that if elected he would free from prison an American man who ran a website that sold millions of dollars in drugs.

Sam Bankman-Fried has been slapped with a 25-year sentence for defrauding numerous individuals who believed in his fake crypto empire, but many are unhappy with the "short" sentence. Others are demanding that all the donations he made to political campaigns be returned.

Episode 438 of the Cyberlaw Podcast

After data breaches, our information enters an illicit supply chain and earns hackers millions of dollars.

It is common to hear news reports about large data breaches, but what happens once your personal data is stolen? Our research shows that, like most legal commodities, stolen data products flow through a supply chain consisting of producers, wholesalers and consumers. But this supply chain involves the interconnection of…

James Zhong stole 50,000 bitcoin from dark web marketplace, Silk Road, in 2012 and had been stashing the hidden devices in an underground safe and on a single board computer concealed in a popcorn tin.

In what is one of the biggest Bitcoin busts of all time, police found the stash hidden in the home of 32-year-old James Zhong, who had stored the cryptocurrency on computer devices

A virtual collection of 10 artworks made by Ulbricht at various stages of his life was worth $6.3 million at the time of sale.